Job 24:8 KJV — MannaFest

Job 24:8

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge--have embraced a rock.

DBT

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

About this book

Old Testament

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Job — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.

Author: Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
Date: Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.

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4 verses on the floor

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.
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.
Psalms 109:10
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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): They cause the naked, whom they have stripped, not leaving them the clothes to their backs, to lodge, in the cold nights, without clothing, so that they are wet with the showers of the mountains, and, for want of a better shelter, embrace the rock, and are glad of a cave or den in it to preserve them from the injuries of the weather.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Wet - With the rain-water, which runs down the rocks or mountains into the caves, to which they fled for shelter. Rock - Are glad when they can find a cleft of a rock in which they may have some protection against the weather.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

That secret sinners often pass undiscovered, ver. 13-18. That God punishes such by secret judgments, and reserves them for future judgment, ver. 19-25.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

But no desert can set men out of the reach of God's eye and hand. Their trade is to steal, and to make a prey of all about them. They have chosen it as their trade; it is their work, because there is more to be got by it, and it is got more easily, than by an honest calling.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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