What Does Job 24:7 Mean in the King James?
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse makes exposure an act imposed by others: the naked are made to spend the night without the coverings cold makes necessary.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks now wherever people are made to sleep without clothing and without a protective layer. It names human agency alongside bodily vulnerability: cold reaches a person through the covering withheld.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Exposure is merely accidental, with no one responsible for it.
THE ROOT
כְּסוּת
kesut
GROWS FROM
כסה
k-s-h
To cover or conceal.
The verse distinguishes clothing from covering, then names a cold in which even the protective layer is absent. This root also carries the sense of concealing; here, its bodily meaning is a layer that keeps exposure from reaching the person.
ALSO GROWS
kasah: To cover or conceal.
כָּסָה
The verb shows that a cover can shield from exposure or hide what lies beneath; here, the needed protection is missing.
mikseh: A covering or protective cover.
מִכְסֶה
This related noun names a physical layer, making the lack of protection in the cold immediate.
לְבוּשׁ
levush
GROWS FROM
לבשׁ
l-b-sh
To clothe, put on, or wear.
English can make clothing sound like an object alone, while this root also names the act of putting on or wearing it. Alongside the missing covering, it shows two absences: the garment and the protection against cold.
ALSO GROWS
lavash: To put on or wear.
לָבַשׁ
The verb brings out the ordinary act of being clothed that the verse says is denied.
malbush: A garment or clothing.
מַלְבּוּשׁ
This related noun makes the connection between the act of wearing and the garment itself visible.
THE PATTERN
Scripture treats clothing and warmth as bodily necessities, and measures care by whether real protection reaches the exposed.
For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?THE THREAD
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;This verse repeats Job 24:7’s pair of concrete protections: clothing and covering. Its first-person test makes the same exposure a matter of direct perception, sharpening what the cold in Job 24:7 makes bodily visible.
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