Job 24:8
What does Job 24:8 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 24:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge--have embraced a rock.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and for want of a shelter embrace the rock...
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- Lamentations 4:5
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
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