Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing,
And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

King James Version

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

Holman Bible

Without clothing, they wander about naked.
They carry sheaves but go hungry.

International Standard Version

They wander around naked, without clothes; hungry, though they carry sheaves of grain.

A Conservative Version

[so that] they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves.

American Standard Version

So that they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.

Amplified


“They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing,
And they take away the sheaves [of grain] from the hungry.

Bible in Basic English

Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

Darby Translation

These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf;

Julia Smith Translation

They caused the naked to go without clothing, and from the hungry they took away the sheaf;

King James 2000

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry;

Lexham Expanded Bible

They go about naked, without clothing, and hungry, they carry [the] sheaves.

Modern King James verseion

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

insomuch that they let him go naked without clothing, and take way the sheaf of the hungry.

NET Bible

They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.

New Heart English Bible

So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

The Emphasized Bible

Naked, they go about without clothing, and, famished, they carry the sheaves;

Webster

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

World English Bible

So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

Youngs Literal Translation

Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
They cause him to go
הלך 
Halak 
go, walk, come, ...away, ...along,
Usage: 1545

ערם ערום 
`arowm 
Usage: 16

לבשׁ לבוּשׁ 
L@buwsh 
Usage: 32

and they take away
נסה נשׂא 
Nasa' 
Usage: 653

the sheaf
עמר 
`omer 
Usage: 14

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Job's Eighth Speech, Continued

9 There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast. They take as a pledge the infant of the poor. 10 “They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing,
And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.
11 Between their terraces they press out oil. They tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 24:19

When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Amos 2:7-8

They pant after the dust of the earth on the head of lowly (meek) persons. They reject the humble! A man and his father have sexual relations with the same maiden, to profane my holy name.

Amos 5:11-12

You impose unfair rent on the poor and defraud a tribute of grain from them. You haave built houses of hewn stone yet you will not live in them. You planted pleasant vineyards, but you will not drink the wine from them.

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