Job 24:8
6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
7 Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
10 Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
- KJV
- They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
- WEB
- They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
- ASV
- They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
- DARBY
- They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and for want of a shelter embrace the rock
- BLB
- From the showers of the mountains they are wet, and from [being] without a shelter, they have embraced the rock.
- ÅB
- Av skyllregnet på fjellet blir de våte, og fordi de ikke har noe annet ly, trykker de seg inn til berget.
- OTB
- De blir gjennomvåte av fjellregnet,
Og de klamrer seg til klippen for mangel på ly. - B1930
- Av skyllregnet på fjellet blir de våte, og fordi de ikke har noget annet ly, trykker de sig inn til berget.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Lamentations 4:5
Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
Read in contextHebrews 11:38
The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 5:2
I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
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