Job 24:8

They are soaked by the cold mountain storms, and huddle beside the rocks for shelter.

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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 spend the night naked because they have no clothes; they have nothing to cover themselves against the cold.

9Fatherless children are snatched from their mother's breasts, taking the babies of the poor as security for a debt.

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 5:2Though I was asleep, my mind was racing. I heard my love knocking, and calling out, “Please open the door, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect love. My head is soaked with dew, my hair is wet from the night mist.”

Hebrews 11:38The world was not worthy to have such people who wandered in the deserts and mountains, living in caves and holes in the ground.

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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