Job 24:8

They are wet with the drops of the mountains: 1 They have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter. 1

Updated 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, 1 And they have taken away the covering of their body. 1

9They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, 1 And have afflicted the outcast. 1

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 5:2I sleep, but my heart is awake: 1 The voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, saying, 1 Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, 1 My dove, my perfect one: 1 For my head is filled with dew, 1 And my locks with the drops of the night. 1

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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