Job 24 · Verse 8

Job 24:8

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

Job 24:8, King James Version

Job 24:8 in other translations

BSB	Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of 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.
YLT	From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge--have embraced a rock.
DARBY	They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and for want of a shelter embrace the rock...
BBE	They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.
Webster	They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

What does Job 24:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 24:2-25

2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24). Some--the wicked. landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains - Mr. Good thinks that torrents, not showers, is the proper translation of the original זרם zerem; but I think showers of the mountain strictly proper. I have seen many of these in mountainous countries, where the tails of water-spouts have been intercepted and broken, and the outpouring of them would be incredible to those who have never witnessed similar phenomena. The rain fell in torrents, and produced torrents on the land, carrying away earth and stones and every thing before them, scooping out great gullies in the sides of the mountains. Mountain torrents are not produced but by such extraordinary outpourings of rain, formed either by water-spouts, or by vast masses of clouds intercepted and broken to pieces by the mountain tops. And embrace the rock for want of a shelter - In such cases as that related above, the firm rock is the only shelter which can be found, or safely trusted.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 24:1-12

Job discourses further about the prosperity of the wicked. That many live at ease who are ungodly and profane, he had showed, ch. xxi. Here he shows that many who live in open defiance of all the laws of justice, succeed in wicked practices; and we do not see them reckoned with in this world. He notices those that do wrong under pretence of law and authority; and robbers, those that do wrong by force. He says, "God…

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Job 24:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

מִזֶּ֣רֶםmi.Ze.remfrom [the] rain ofH2230

הָרִ֣יםha.Rim[the] mountainsH2022

יִרְטָ֑בוּyir.Ta.vuthey are wetH7372

וּֽמִבְּלִ֥יu.mi.be.Liand because notH1097

מַ֝חְסֶ֗הmach.SehshelterH4268

חִבְּקוּ\־chi.be.ku-they embraceH2263

צֽוּר\׃Tzur[the] rockH6697

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 24:8

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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

wet.
So 5:2
embrace.
La 4:5; Heb 11:38

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

Job 24:7
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Job 24:8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
Job 24:9
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

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Job 24:8 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Con las avenidas de los montes se mojan, y abrazan las peñas sin tener abrigo.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Ils sont trempés par les averses des montagnes, et, sans refuge, ils se serrent contre le rocher…
German Elberfelder 1871	Vom Regenguß des Gebirges werden sie durchnäßt, und obdachlos umklammern sie den Felsen. -
Latin Clementine Vulgate	quos imbres montium rigant, et non habentes velamen, amplexantur lapides.