Job 24:8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
World English Bible Classic
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 lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
Cross References
Song of Solomon 5:2I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
Hebrews 11:38of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes 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 →