deliver: Exodus 22:26-27; Job 24:7-8, Job 29:11-13, Job 31:16-20; Ezekiel 18:7, Ezekiel 18:12, Ezekiel 18:16, Ezekiel 33:15; Amos 2:8; 2 Timothy 1:16-18
the sun: Deuteronomy 24:15; 2 Corinthians 9:13-14; Ephesians 4:26
in his own raiment: The raiment here referred to was most likely the same as the hyke: of the Arabs, a long kind of blanket, resembling a Highland plaid, generally about six yards in length, and five or six feet broad; in which they often carry their provisions, as well as wrap themselves in, in the day, and sleep in at night, it being their only substitute for a bed. How necessary, then, it was to restore the hyke: to a poor man before the going down of the sun, that he might have something to repose on, will sufficiently appear from these considerations.