King James Version
Job 24:8 in the King James Version says “They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.” — study this verse from Job chapter 24 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.”
Job 24:8 · KJV
They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. corn: Heb. mingled corn, or, dredge they gather: Heb. the wicked gather the vintage
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, failure, i.e., nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc
“the rock”
H6697properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
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