KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 24:8–9
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Job 24:8
8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
8They are wet with the showres of the mountaines, and imbrace the rocke for want of a shelter.
Job 24:9
9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
9They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take a pledge of the poore.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 24:8
Covered, soaked, or moistened with water or another liquid.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Falls of rain.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To clasp in the arms; to receive, accept, or welcome readily.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Lack or need; poverty or deficiency; as a verb, to lack or be without.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 24:9
The front part of the body between the neck and the belly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Lacking material means; needy, afflicted, lowly, or humble, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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From verse 8
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Open the full verse study5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
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Open the full verse study38(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
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Open the full verse study2¶ I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
From verse 9
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Open the full verse study5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
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Open the full verse study1NOW there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
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