Devine Scripture

Job 24:8

Job chapter 24 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.7They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.

v.8This passage

v.9There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;

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.