Job 24:10
Good News Translation
But the poor must go out with no clothes to protect them; they must go hungry while harvesting wheat.

New Revised Standard Version
They go about naked, without clothing; though hungry, they carry the sheaves;

Contemporary English Version
Then they are forced to work naked in the grain fields because they have no clothes, and they go hungry.

New American Bible
They go about naked, without clothing, and famished, they carry the sheaves.

Douay-Rheims Bible
From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.

they take away

Deuteronomy 24:19 When thou hast reaped the corn in thy field, and hast forgot and left a sheaf, thou shalt not return to take it away: but thou shalt suffer the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow to take it away: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands.

Amos 2:7,8 They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone to the same young woman, to profane my holy name. . . .

Amos 5:11,12 Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them. . . .

Context
Job: Judgment for the Wicked
9They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people. 10From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.11They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who after having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst.…
Cross References
James 5:4
Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Job 24:9
They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.

Job 24:11
They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who after having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst.

Job 31:39
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof:

Job 24:9
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