Job 24:8 · KJV
“They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.”
— Job 24:8
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that {they have} no covering in the cold.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Job 24 — Context
They reap {every one} his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. {corn: Heb. mingled corn, or, dredge} {they gather...: Heb. the wicked gather the vintage}
7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that {they have} no covering in the cold.
8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10They cause {him} to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf {from} the hungry;
Cross References
Lamentations 4:5
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Song of Solomon 5:2
I sleep, but my heart waketh: {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, {and} my locks with the drops of the night.
Hebrews 11:38
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and {in} mountains, and {in} dens and caves of the earth.