10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
10 They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;
10 They go about patched and threadbare; even the hard workers go hungry.
10 They cause the poor to go naked, without clothing; And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.
10 The poor must go about naked, without any clothing. They harvest food for others while they themselves are starving.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 24:10
Commentary on Job 24:1-12
(Read Job 24:1-12)
Job discourses further about the prosperity of the wicked. That many live at ease who are ungodly and profane, he had showed, ch. xxi. Here he shows that many who live in open defiance of all the laws of justice, succeed in wicked practices; and we do not see them reckoned with in this world. He notices those that do wrong under pretence of law and authority; and robbers, those that do wrong by force. He says, "God layeth not folly to them;" that is, he does not at once send his judgments, nor make them examples, and so manifest their folly to all the world. But he that gets riches, and not by right, at his end shall be a fool, Jeremiah 17:11.