Job 24:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 4:5 : 5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
  • Heb 11:38 : 38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.
  • Song 5:2 : 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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  • Job 24:2-7
    6 verses
    83%

    2 [Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof].

    3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

    4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

    5 Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.

    6 They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

    7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.

  • Job 24:9-11
    3 verses
    80%

    9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

    10 They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;

    11 [Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.

  • Job 30:5-7
    3 verses
    77%

    5 They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)

    6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.

    7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

  • Jer 14:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, [and] found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

    4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

  • 14 They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].

  • 30 ‹Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.›

  • 4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones [is] as a storm [against] the wall.

  • 2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

  • 3 For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

  • 18 And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.

  • 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

  • Lam 4:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, [and] no man breaketh [it] unto them.

    5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

  • 8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

  • 19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] have sinned.

  • 19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

  • 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

  • 23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.

  • 18 The high hills [are] a refuge for the wild goats; [and] the rocks for the conies.

  • 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

  • 9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • 21 And they thirsted not [when] he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

  • 19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • 3 ¶ A poor man that oppresseth the poor [is like] a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

  • 14 Will [a man] leave the snow of Lebanon [which cometh] from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

  • Joel 1:17-18
    2 verses
    67%

    17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

    18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

  • Heb 11:37-38
    2 verses
    67%

    37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

    38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.

  • 8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm [and] tempest.

  • 16 In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

  • 4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; [even the waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

  • 9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

  • 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

  • 40 When they couch in [their] dens, [and] abide in the covert to lie in wait?

  • 7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

  • 6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

  • 15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as [out of] the great depths.

  • 27 To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground]; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

  • 10 The mountains saw thee, [and] they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, [and] lifted up his hands on high.