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


In Context

5 Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.

6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.

7 Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.

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

9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.

10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go 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 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.

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.