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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Job 24:8

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, where the poor try to find refuge, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter, clinging closely to it, crouching beneath it in the vain attempt to find a covering. The description of the tyrants themselves is now resumed.

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See also Job 24:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 24:8. _THEY ARE WET WITH THE SHOWERS OF THE MOUNTAINS_] Mr. _Good_ thinks that _torrents_, not _showers_, is the proper translation of the original זרם _zerem_; but I think _showers of the_...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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. These sh...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 23-24 JOB'S REPLY _ 1. O that I knew where I may find Him (Job 23:1)_ 2. Trusting yet doubting (Job 23:10) 3. Hath God failed? (Job 24:1) 4. Job's further testimony as to the wicked ...

  • 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, consid...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job now directs his attention to a particular class of outcasts, giving a pathetic description of their flight from the abodes of men and their herding together like wild asses in the wilderness; thei...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The mountain rains, more violent than even those in the plain, drench these thinly-clad outcasts; and they "embrace the rock," i. e. huddle in closely under its ledge....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT 24:1-12 24 WHY ARE TIMES NOT LAID UP BY THE ALMIGHTY? And why do not they that know him see his days? 2 There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them. 3...

  • 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 - boundaries betwee...

  • 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 unpunished....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    This passage is very sad. These people struggle to find food (verse 5). They get cold and wet (verse 6). They have nowhere to live. Job said that they are like wild donkeys (animals). God answered Jo...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 24 JOB CONTINUES HIS SPEECH...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מִ זֶּ֣רֶם הָרִ֣ים יִרְטָ֑בוּ וּֽ מִ בְּלִ֥י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XX. WHERE IS ELOAH? Job 23:1; Job 24:1 Job SPEAKS THE obscure couplet with which Job begins appears to involve some reference to his whole condition alike of body and mind. "Again today, my plain...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    NOT HERE, BUT HEREAFTER Job 24:1 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 the life o...

  • 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 still...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Stones, for their bed, though they be so wet. (Haydock)_...

  • 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 t...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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, or...

  • 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 w...

  • 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 t...

  • Leslie 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) do...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-12 Job discourses further about the prosperity of the wicked. That many live at ease who are ungodly and profane, he had showed, ch. xxi. Here he shows that many who live in open defiance of all th...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The 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 mount...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 24:8 wet H7372 (H8799) showers H2230 mountains H2022 huddle H2263 (H8765) rock H6697 shelter H4268 wet -

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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. Some remove...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. The prosperity of the wicked. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: Though wicked men seem sometimes to be under the special protection of divine providence, e...

  • 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 high...

  • 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. Amongst t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 24:1 Job wishes that God’s plans for the world and for Job would be more apparent. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 24:2 Job describes the injustices of the wicked (vv. Job 24:2) and the effects of the injustices on their victims (vv. Job 24:5

  • The 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 shew...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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). A single note of perplexity (Job 24:1) forms a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now, why, seeing the times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? Some [now you've accused me of these things, but there are some] that remove the landmarks; and vio...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Hebrews 11:38; Lamentations 4:5; Song of Solomon 5:2...

  • 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 pro...

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