Job 24:8 Meaning and Explanation
“They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Without a home, the poor are soaked by mountain rains and cling to bare rock for whatever meager shelter it offers.
What Does Job 24:8 Mean?
Job completes the scene of homelessness. Drenched by the storms that sweep down from the mountains, the destitute press themselves against the rock, embracing cold stone because they have no other shelter. The very landscape that should sustain life becomes a place of exposure and misery.
The picture is meant to move the heart, and Job means it to move God to act. Scripture often calls the Lord Himself the Rock, the true shelter and refuge for the storm-battered. What these poor seek in vain from cold stone, the faithful find in God, who is a hiding place from the tempest. Christ is the rock cleft for our refuge, and He gathers the weather-beaten into a shelter that does not fail.
Job 24:8 in the Original Language
tsur (צוּר), 'rock' -- a crag or cliff, often used elsewhere as an image of God the refuge.
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What does Job 24:8 mean?
Without a home, the poor are soaked by mountain rains and cling to bare rock for whatever meager shelter it offers.