They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Job's friends had been very positive in it that they should soon see the fall of wicked people, how much soever they might prosper for a while. By no means, says Job; though times are not hidden from…
Cambridge Bible
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.
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