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Job 24:8

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

KJV

quos imbres montium rigant, et non habentes velamen, amplexantur lapides.

Vulgate

ἀπὸ ψεκάδων ὀρέων ὑγραίνονται, παρὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν ἑαυτοὺς σκέπην πέτραν περιεβάλοντο.

LXX

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

ASV

מִ/זֶּ֣רֶם הָרִ֣ים יִרְטָ֑בוּ וּֽ/מִ/בְּלִ֥י מַ֝חְסֶ֗ה חִבְּקוּ צֽוּר

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בְלִי
bly
noun · 58×
הַ֣ר
hr
noun · 544×
זֶ֥רֶם
zrm
noun · 9×
י
y
noun · 19×
יִרְטָ֑בוּ
yrtbv
verb · 1×
נִי
ny
verb · 13×
צ֥וּר
tsvr
noun · 75×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Lam 4:5 — They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.