Job 24:8
Through the sweeping rain of the mountains are they made wet, and for want of a shelter do they embrace the rock.
Leeser Tanakh
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
9The others pluck from the breast the fatherless, and the garment of the poor they take in pledge.
Cross References
Song of Solomon 5:2I slept, but my heart was awake: [there was] the voice of my beloved that knocked, “Open for me, my sister, my beloved, my dove, my guiltless 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 →