Job: Judgment for the Wicked
Job 24:8
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
- KJV
- They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
- WEB
- They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
- ASV
- They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
- LSV
- From the inundation of hills they are wet, || And without a refuge—have embraced a rock.
- YLT
- From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge — have embraced a rock.
- DBY
- They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and for want of a shelter embrace the rock...
- DRC
- Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.
- GNV
- They are wet with the showres of the moutaines, and they imbrace the rocke for want of a couering.
- JPS
- They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
- LXXE
- They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- מִזֶּ֣רֶם הָרִ֣ים יִרְטָ֑בוּ וּֽמִבְּלִ֥י מַ֝חְסֶ֗ה חִבְּקוּ־צֽוּר׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἀπὸ ψεκάδων ὀρέων ὑγραίνονται· παρὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν ἑαυτοὺς σκέπην, πέτραν περιεβάλοντο.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Lamentations 4:5Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
- Hebrews 11:38The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.
- Song of Songs 5:2I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
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