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Selected Verse: Job 24:10 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Job 24:10 |
King James |
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry; |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
(See on Job 22:6). In Job 24:7 a like sin is alluded to: but there he implies open robbery of garments in the desert; here, the more refined robbery in civilized life, under the name of a "pledge." Having stripped the poor, they make them besides labor in their harvest-fields and do not allow them to satisfy their hunger with any of the very corn which they carry to the heap. Worse treatment than that of the ox, according to Deu 25:4. Translate: "they (the poor laborers) hungering carry the sheaves" [UMBREIT]. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
And they take away the sheaf from the hungry - The meaning of this is, that the hungry are compelled to bear the sheaf for the rich without being allowed to satisfy their hunger from it. Moses commanded that even the ox should not be muzzled that trod out the grain Deu 25:4; but here was more aggravated cruelty than that would be, in compelling men to bear the sheaf of the harvest without allowing them even to satisfy their hunger. This is an instance of the cruelty which Job says was actually practiced on the earth, and yet God did not interpose to punish it. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
The sheaf - That single sheaf which the poor man had got with the sweat of his brow to satisfy his hunger. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
They cause him to go naked - These cruel, hard-hearted oppressors seize the cloth made for the family wear, or the wool and flax out of which such clothes should be made.
And they take away the sheaf - Seize the grain as soon as it is reaped, that they may pay themselves the exorbitant rent at which they have leased out their land: and thus the sheaf - the thraves and ricks, by which they should have been supported, are taken away from the hungry. |
4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.