Job 24:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for want of shelter.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ They are wet with the showers of the mountains and cling to the rock for want of shelter.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁸ wet from mountain rains, with no refuge, huddled against a rock.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ these are wet with the mountain rain, and, having no covering, they embrace the rocks.

Job 24:8 Cross References

Lamentations 4:5

Those who feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple cling to ash heaps.

Hebrews 11:38

of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains and in caves and holes in the ground.

Song of Solomon 5:2

I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. The sound of my beloved knocking! “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.”

Job 24:7

They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

Job 24:9

“There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.