Job 24:8

8 Exposed to the weather, wet and frozen, they huddle in makeshift shelters.

Job 24:8 Meaning and Commentary

Job 24:8

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 the snow at the top of them melts through the heat of the day; and whether by the one or by the other, large streams of water run down the mountains, and the naked poor, or such who are thinly clothed, are all over wet therewith, as Nebuchadnezzar's body was with the dew of heaven, when he was driven from men, and lived among beasts, ( Daniel 4:33 ) ( 5:21 ) :

and embrace the rock for want of a shelter;
or habitation, as the Targum; having no house to dwell in, nor any raiment to cover them, they were glad to get into the hole of a rock, in a cave or den there, and where some good men in former times were obliged to wander, ( Hebrews 11:38 ) ; and whither mean persons, in the time and country in which Job lived, were driven to dwell in, see ( Job 30:6 ) .

Job 24:8 In-Context

6 They sort through the garbage of the rich, eke out survival on handouts.

7 Homeless, they shiver through cold nights on the street; they've no place to lay their heads.

8 Exposed to the weather, wet and frozen, they huddle in makeshift shelters.

9 Nursing mothers have their babies snatched from them; the infants of the poor are kidnapped and sold.

10 They go about patched and threadbare; even the hard workers go hungry.