Job 24:8
Good News Translation
They are drenched by the rain that falls on the mountains, and they huddle beside the rocks for shelter.

New Revised Standard Version
They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and cling to the rock for want of shelter.

Contemporary English Version
and during a storm their only shelters are caves among the rocky cliffs.

New American Bible
They are drenched with rain from the mountains, and for want of shelter they cling to the rock.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.

wet

Songs 5:2 I sleep, and my heart watcheth: the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights.

embrace

Lamentations 4:5 He. They that were fed delicately have died in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung.

Hebrews 11:38 Of whom the world was not worthy: wandering in deserts, in mountains and in dens and in caves of the earth.

Context
Job: Judgment for the Wicked
7They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold: 8Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.9They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.…
Cross References
Job 24:7
They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold:

Job 24:9
They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.

Job 24:7
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