Job 24:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 4:5 : 5 ה(He) Those who once feasted on delicacies are now starving to death in the streets. Those who grew up wearing expensive clothes are now dying amid garbage.
  • Heb 11:38 : 38 (the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.
  • Song 5:2 : 2 The Trials of Love: The Beloved’s Dream of Losing Her LoverThe Beloved about Her Lover: I was asleep, but my mind was dreaming. Listen! My lover is knocking at the door! The Lover to His Beloved:“Open for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one! My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 24:2-7
    6 verses
    83%

    2 Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.

    3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

    4 They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

    5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.

    6 They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

    7 They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold.

  • Job 24:9-11
    3 verses
    80%

    9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

    10 They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.

    11 They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.

  • Job 30:5-7
    3 verses
    77%

    5 They were banished from the community– people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves–

    6 so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

    7 They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles.

  • Jer 14:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 The leading men of the cities send their servants for water. They go to the cisterns, but they do not find any water there. They return with their containers empty. Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands.

    4 They are dismayed because the ground is cracked because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers, too, are dismayed and bury their faces in their hands.

  • 14 They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.

  • 30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains,‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills,‘Cover us!’

  • 4 For you are a protector for the poor, a protector for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the rainstorm, a shade from the heat. Though the breath of tyrants is like a winter rainstorm,

  • 2 Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from a rainstorm; like streams of water in a dry region and like the shade of a large cliff in a parched land.

  • 3 gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste.

  • 18 But as a mountain falls away and crumbles, and as a rock will be removed from its place,

  • 19 If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat,

  • Lam 4:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4 ד(Dalet) The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.

    5 ה(He) Those who once feasted on delicacies are now starving to death in the streets. Those who grew up wearing expensive clothes are now dying amid garbage.

  • 8 as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down– to the place you appointed for them.

  • 19 The drought as well as the heat snatch up the melted snow; so the grave snatches up the sinner.

  • 19 All of them will come and make their home in the ravines between the cliffs, and in the crevices of the cliffs, in all the thorn bushes, and in all the watering holes.

  • 6 By day it will be a shelter to provide shade from the heat, as well as safety and protection from the heavy downpour.

  • 23 They waited for me as people wait for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rains.

  • 18 The wild goats live in the high mountains; the rock badgers find safety in the cliffs.

  • 21 so they themselves can go into the crevices of the rocky cliffs and the openings under the rocky overhangs, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.

  • 9 you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

  • 21 They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions; he makes water flow out of a rock for them; he splits open a rock and water flows out.’

  • 19 ק(Qof) Those who pursued us were swifter than eagles in the sky. They chased us over the mountains; they ambushed us in the wilderness.

  • 3 A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.

  • 14 Does the snow ever completely vanish from the rocky slopes of Lebanon? Do the cool waters from those distant mountains ever cease to flow?

  • Joel 1:17-18
    2 verses
    67%

    17 The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

    18 Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

  • Heb 11:37-38
    2 verses
    67%

    37 They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

    38 (the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

  • 8 I will hurry off to a place that is safe from the strong wind and the gale.”

  • 16 In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

  • 4 Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

  • 9 On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand; he has overturned mountains at their bases.

  • 17 These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved.

  • 40 when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

  • 7 You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.

  • 6 They kill the widow and the resident foreigner, and they murder the fatherless.

  • 15 He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.

  • 27 to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

  • 10 When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.