Job 24:8
Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold:
9They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.
Cross References
Song of Solomon 5:2I sleep, and my heart watcheth; the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights.
Hebrews 11:38Of whom the world was not worthy; wandering in deserts, in mountains, and in dens, and in caved of the earth.
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 →