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Job 24:8

Job 24:8 is verse 8 of Job chapter 24, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

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Job 24:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

7 Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

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

9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

10 Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Song of Solomon 5:2

I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

Lamentations 4:5

Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.

Hebrews 11:38

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.

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