Job 24:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Job 24:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They are wet with the showers of the mountains - That is, the poor persons, or the travelers whom they have robbed. Hills collect the clouds, and showers seem to pour down from the mountains. The...
Job 24:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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.
Job 24:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24. This chapter has since Merx in 1871 been subjected to much criticism, the general trend of which has been to deny the whole or a considerable part of the chapter to Job. Peake, however, con...
Job 24:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. They are wet with the showers of the mountains - Mr. Good thinks that torrents, not showers, is the proper...
Job 24:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity. Some - the wicked. Landmarks - boundar...
Job 24:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Seventh Speech (concluded) 1-25. Job continues to express his perplexity at the ways of Providence in the ordering of the world. The poor and the weak suffer; violence and wrong go unpunishe...
Job 24:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XX. WHERE IS ELOAH? Job 23:1-17 ; Job 24:1-25 Job SPEAKS THE obscure couplet with which Job begins appears to involve some reference to his whole condition alike of body and mind. "Again to...
Job 24:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

not Here, but Hereafter Job 24:1-25 Job laments that the times of punishment are not so explained by God, that those who know Him may see and understand His reasons. He then turns to describe t...
Job 24:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Passing from the personal aspect of his problem, Job considered it in its wider application. He asked the reason of God's noninterference, and then proceeded to describe the evidences of it. Men stil...
Job 24:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(2) Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. (3) They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. (4) They turn the needy out of...
Job 24:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They are wet with the showers of the mountains ,.... They that are without any clothes to cover them, lying down at the bottom of a hill or mountain, where the clouds often gather, and there break,...
Job 24:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. Ver. 8. They are wet with the showers of the mountains ] Wet they are, but not at all refreshed, as this...
Job 24:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They are wet That is, the poor, being stripped of their raiment, and forced away from their houses; with the showers of the mountains With the rain-water, which, in great showers, runs down from...
Job 24:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

DOES GOD FAIL TO GOVERN PROPERLY? (vv.1-12) "Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? Why do not they who know Him see His days?" (v.1 - JND trans.) Job wonders why God (who is Almighty...
Job 24:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Outward Prosperity of the Wicked. B. C. 1520. 1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from th...
Job 24:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They, i.e. the poor, being stripped of their raiment, and forced away from their houses. With the showers of the mountains; with the rain water, which in great showers run down from the rocks or...
Job 24:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ Prosecutes his own view of the Divine government. Enlarges on the crimes of one part of men and the sufferings of another as the consequences of them, to s...
Job 24:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Job 24:1 . Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? «Why do they live so long? Why do they appear to have such prosperity?» Job 24:2-4 . Some...
Job 24:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 24:3 . They drive away the ass of the fatherless. In Job's time there was no regular government or empire, to bring neighbouring tyrants to justice; proof sufficient that this book is of the h...
Job 24:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty. Great crimes not always followed by great punishment in this life I. Great crimes have prevailed on the earth from the earliest times. Amongs...
Job 24:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The general subject of this chapter is the prosperity of the wicked, whose proceedings and their results are traced out in detail ( Job 24:2-18 ). A single note of perplexity ( Job 24...
Job 24:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Hidden Ways of God with Regard to the Wicked
Job 24:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 11:38 ; Lamentations 4:5 ; Song of Solomon 5:2
Job 24:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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...

Job 24:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 24:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 24:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 24:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 24:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 24:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 24:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 24:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 24:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 24:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 24:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 24:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 24:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 24:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 24:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Job 24:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 24:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 24:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 24:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 24:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 24:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes