Bible Strands
Job 24:10
Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job describes the brutal exploitation of the vulnerable during his discourse on the delay of divine justice, immediately after noting how a nursing child is seized for debt.
The words — עָר֣וֹם (a.Rom) = naked paired with לְב֑וּשׁ (le.Vush) = clothing highlights the total deprivation of basic protection. עֹֽמֶר ('O.mer) = a sheaf denotes the specific agricultural labor that yields no personal sustenance.
The thread — This pattern of harvest exploitation appears in Deuteronomy 24:19, which commands leaving forgotten sheaves for the foreigner, and Amos 5:11, which condemns exacting a tax of grain from the poor. Amos 2:7 further parallels the theme by describing the powerful pushing the needy out of their way.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that forced labor and asset seizure routinely strip the vulnerable of both basic dignity and the food they produce. It requires the reader to confront how economic systems can systematically convert work into starvation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
Cross-references
- Amos 2:7 They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
- Deuteronomy 24:19 If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
- Amos 5:11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.