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 the rocks or mountains into the caves or holes in the sides of them, to which they have fled for shelter. And embrace the rock That is, are glad when they can find a cavern, or cleft of a rock, in which they may have some protection against the injuries of the weather, and a hiding-place from the fury of their oppressors.
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Job 24:8
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.