Job 24:8
New International Version
They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.

New Living Translation
They are soaked by mountain showers, and they huddle against the rocks for want of a home.

English Standard Version
They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for lack of shelter.

Berean Standard Bible
Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

King James Bible
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

New King James Version
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And huddle around the rock for want of shelter.

New American Standard Bible
“They are wet from the mountain rains, And they hug the rock for lack of a shelter.

NASB 1995
“They are wet with the mountain rains And hug the rock for want of a shelter.

NASB 1977
“They are wet with the mountain rains, And they hug the rock for want of a shelter.

Legacy Standard Bible
They are wet with the mountain rains And hug the rock for want of a shelter.

Amplified Bible
“They are wet from the rain of the mountains And cling to the rock for lack of shelter.

Christian Standard Bible
Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks, shelterless.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks, shelterless.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
From the downpour of the mountains they will be wet and from lack of refuge, they will embrace stones

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter.

Contemporary English Version
and during a storm their only shelters are caves among the rocky cliffs.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.

English Revised Version
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They are drenched by the rainstorms in the mountains. They hug the rocks because they can't find shelter.

Good News Translation
They are drenched by the rain that falls on the mountains, and they huddle beside the rocks for shelter.

International Standard Version
They are wet from mountain rains; without shelter, they cling to a rock.

JPS Tanakh 1917
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

Literal Standard Version
From the inundation of hills they are wet, | And without a refuge—have embraced a rock.

Majority Standard Bible
Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

New American Bible
They are drenched with rain from the mountains, and for want of shelter they cling to the rock.

NET Bible
They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.

New Revised Standard Version
They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and cling to the rock for want of shelter.

New Heart English Bible
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

Webster's Bible Translation
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

World English Bible
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

Young's Literal Translation
From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge -- have embraced a rock.

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Context
Job: Judgment for the Wicked
7Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold. 8Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter. 9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.…

Cross References
Job 24:7
Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

Job 24:9
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.


Treasury of Scripture

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

wet

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.

embrace

Lamentations 4:5
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

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.

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Verse 8. - They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. Further unpleasant consequences of marauding, but endured without complaint by the wild robber-tribes.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Drenched
יִרְטָ֑בוּ (yir·ṭā·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7372: To be moist

by mountain
הָרִ֣ים (hā·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

rains,
מִזֶּ֣רֶם (miz·ze·rem)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2230: A flood of rain, rainstorm, downpour

they huddle
חִבְּקוּ־ (ḥib·bə·qū-)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2263: To clasp, embrace

against the rocks
צֽוּר׃ (ṣūr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6697: A cliff, a rock, boulder, a refuge, an edge

for want
וּֽמִבְּלִ֥י (ū·mib·bə·lî)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Adverb
Strong's 1097: Failure, nothing, destruction, without, not yet, because not, as long as

of shelter.
מַ֝חְסֶ֗ה (maḥ·seh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4268: Refuge, shelter


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