Job 24:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Lam 4:5 : 5 Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
  • Heb 11:38 : 38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
  • Song 5:2 : 2 I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night."

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Job 24:2-7
    6 verses
    83%

    2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

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

    4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

    5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

    6 They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

    7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

  • Job 24:9-11
    3 verses
    80%

    9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

    10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

    11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

  • Job 30:5-7
    3 verses
    77%

    5 They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;

    6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

    7 Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together.

  • Jer 14:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

    4 Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.

  • Job 30:14
    71%

    14 As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.

  • Luke 23:30
    70%

    30 Then they will begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and tell the hills, 'Cover us.'

  • Isa 25:4
    70%

    4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

  • Isa 32:2
    70%

    2 A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

  • Job 30:3
    70%

    3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

  • Job 14:18
    69%

    18 "But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

  • Job 31:19
    69%

    19 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

  • Lam 4:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4 The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.

    5 Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

  • Ps 104:8
    68%

    8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.

  • Job 24:19
    68%

    19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

  • Isa 7:19
    68%

    19 They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.

  • Isa 4:6
    68%

    6 There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

  • Job 29:23
    68%

    23 They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

  • Ps 104:18
    68%

    18 The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

  • Isa 2:21
    68%

    21 To go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

  • Job 22:9
    68%

    9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Isa 48:21
    68%

    21 They didn't thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

  • Lam 4:19
    68%

    19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Prov 28:3
    68%

    3 A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

  • Jer 18:14
    68%

    14 Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?

  • Joel 1:17-18
    2 verses
    67%

    17 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

    18 How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

  • Heb 11:37-38
    2 verses
    67%

    37 They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

    38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

  • Ps 55:8
    67%

    8 "I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm."

  • Job 24:16
    67%

    16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

  • Job 28:4
    67%

    4 He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

  • Job 28:9
    67%

    9 He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.

  • 2 Pet 2:17
    67%

    17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

  • Job 38:40
    67%

    40 when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?

  • Job 22:7
    67%

    7 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • Ps 94:6
    67%

    6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

  • Ps 78:15
    67%

    15 He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

  • Job 38:27
    67%

    27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

  • Hab 3:10
    67%

    10 The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.