Job 24:8

Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

Majority Standard Bible

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

7Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 5:2I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

Hebrews 11:38The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid 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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