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


In Context

5 Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children.

6 They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.

7 They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold:

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

9 They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.

10 From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.

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 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.

The American 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.