Job 24:8New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “They are wet with the mountain rains And hug the rock for want of a shelter.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and for want of a shelter embrace the rock ...
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— With the sweeping rain of the mountains, are they wet, and, through having no shelter, they embrace a rock.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge—have embraced a rock.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— They are wet with the showres of the moutaines, and they imbrace the rocke for want of a couering.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— They are wet with the showres of the mountaines, and imbrace the rocke for want of a shelter.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of shelter.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. |
They are wet
7372 {7372} Primeרָטַבratab{raw-tab'}
A primitive root; to be moist.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
with the showers
2230 {2230} Primeזֶרֶםzerem{zeh'-rem}
From H2229; a gush of water.
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
of the mountains,
2022 {2022} Primeהַרhar{har}
A shortened form of H2042; a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively).
and embrace
2263 {2263} Primeחָבַקchabaq{khaw-bak'}
A primitive root; to clasp (the hands or in embrace).
z8765 <8765> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 2121
the rock
6697 {6697} Primeצוּרtsuwr{tsoor}
From H6696; properly a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally a rock or boulder; figuratively a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous).
for want
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
x1097 (1097) Complementבְּלִיb@liy{bel-ee'}
From H1086; properly failure, that is, nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.
of a shelter.
4268 {4268} Primeמַחַסֶהmachaceh{makh-as-eh'}
From H2620; a shelter (literally or figuratively). |
Job 24:8
_ _ They — the plundered travelers.
_ _ embrace the rock — take refuge under it (Lamentations 4:5). |
Job 24:8
Wet — With the rain — water, which runs down the rocks or mountains into the caves, to which they fled for shelter. Rock — Are glad when they can find a cleft of a rock in which they may have some protection against the weather. |
Job 24:8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, (h) and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
(h) The poor are driven by the wicked into the rock and holes where they cannot lie dry for the rain. |
- wet:
Song of Songs 5:2 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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- embrace:
Lamentations 4:5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Hebrews 11:38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.
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