Job 24:8

They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter.

Brenton Septuagint

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 have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, and they have taken away the covering of their body.

9They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 5:2I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, saying, Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

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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