Job 24:8
They are drenched with the mountain showers, And embrace the rock for want of shelter.
Noyes 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
7They lodge naked, without clothing, And without covering from the cold.
9The fatherless are torn from the breast, And the garment of the needy is taken for a pledge.
Cross References
Song of Solomon 5:2[[M.]] I slept, but my heart was awake; It was the voice of my beloved, who was knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my love, My dove, my perfect one! For my head is filled with dew, And my locks with the drops of the night.”
Hebrews 11:38of whom the world was not worthy; they wandered in deserts and mountains, and caves and the clefts of the earth.
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 →