Job 24:8
With the sweeping rain of the mountains, are they wet, and, through having no shelter, they embrace a rock.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
7Ill-clad, they are left to lodge without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;
9Men tear, from the breast, the fatherless, and, over the poor, they take a pledge;
Cross References
Song of Solomon 5:2[SHE] I, was sleeping, but, my heart, was awake,—The voice of my beloved—knocking! Open to me, my sister, my fair one, my dove, my perfect one, for, my head, is filled with dew, my locks, with the moisture of the night.
Hebrews 11:38Of whom the world, was not worthy—upon deserts, wandering, and mountains, and in caves,—and in the caverns 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 →