Job 24:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 4:5 : 5 Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.
  • Heb 11:38 : 38 Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.
  • Song 5:2 : 2 I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 24:2-7
    6 verses
    83%

    2The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.

    3They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

    4The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

    5Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

    6They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

    7They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.

  • Job 24:9-11
    3 verses
    80%

    9The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

    10Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

    11Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

  • Job 30:5-7
    3 verses
    77%

    5They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves

    6They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.

    7They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.

  • Jer 14:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.

    4Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.

  • 14As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

  • 30And they will say to the mountains, Come down on us, and to the hills, Be a cover over us.

  • 4For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm.

  • 2And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.

  • 3They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

  • 18But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;

  • 19If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

  • Lam 4:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

    5Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

  • 8The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.

  • 19Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

  • 19And they will come, covering all the waste valleys, and the holes of the rocks, and the thorns, and all the watering-places.

  • 6And a shade in the daytime from the heat, and a safe cover from storm and from rain.

  • 23They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains.

  • 18The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts.

  • 21To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

  • 9You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

  • 21They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.

  • 19Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

  • 3A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.

  • 14Will the white snow go away from the top of Sirion? will the cold waters flowing from the mountains become dry?

  • Joel 1:17-18
    2 verses
    67%

    17The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

    18What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.

  • Heb 11:37-38
    2 verses
    67%

    37They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,

    38Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.

  • 8I would quickly take cover from the driving storm and from the violent wind.

  • 16In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

  • 4He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

  • 9Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.

  • 17These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.

  • 7You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

  • 6They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

  • 15The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

  • 27To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

  • 10The mountains saw you and were moved with fear; the clouds were streaming with water: the voice of the deep was sounding; the sun did not come up, and the moon kept still in her place.