Job 24:8

They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

In Context

7They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.

9The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 5:2I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

Hebrews 11:38Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.

Matthew Henry on Job 24:2-13

Outward Prosperity of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food… Read the whole commentary →

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