8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.


In Context

5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

Job 24:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

24:8They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

24:8Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

24:8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and for want of a shelter embrace the rock ...

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

24:8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

24:8From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge — have embraced a rock.