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Job_24:10 They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
Ver. 10. They cause him to go naked without clothing] Naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to their shame and danger, as Isa_20:4. So dealt the Popish bishops with the poor Protestant Albigenses, at the rendition of Carcasson, in France; they let them have their lives upon the condition that both men and women should go thence stark naked; those parts that cannot well be named being laid open to the view of those pope-holy cruciates (Rivet. Jesuit).
And they take away the sheaf from the hungry] Or, the handful; that little that they had leazed; snatching the ears of corn out of their hands, and condemning them, thus denuded and despoiled, to a death which is so much the more cruel as it is tedious and languishing. Some read it thus, And those that carried their sheaves they made to go away hungry; either not feeding or not paying their harvest labourers and other servants. It is noted in history as a cruelty in the Athenians, that they put an engine about their servants’ necks called ðáõóéêïðç , and it reached down to their hands, that they might not so much as lick of the meal when they were sifting it.