Job 24:8
They are wet with the showres of the moutaines, and they imbrace the rocke for want of a couering.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.
9They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.
Cross References
Song of Solomon 5:2I sleepe, but mine heart waketh, it is the voyce of my welbeloued that knocketh, saying, Open vnto mee, my sister, my loue, my doue, my vndefiled: for mine head is full of dewe, and my lockes with the droppes of the night.
Hebrews 11:38Whom the world was not worthie of: they wandered in wildernesses and mountaines, and dennes, and caues 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 →