Job 24:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills.

Hebrews 11:38

(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

Song of Solomon 5:2

I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: For my head is filled 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 that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor: