From the rain of the mountains they are drenched and cling to the rock for lack of shelter, extending the depiction of the poor's exposure to natural elements, seeking refuge in stones because society denies them shelter. The drenching rain becomes a metaphor for suffering that the poor cannot escape, adding to the accumulation of hardships that characterize their existence. The clinging to rocks suggests both physical desperation and the loss of human habitation, the reduction of shelter to whatever the raw landscape offers. Job's attention to weather and exposure reveals that injustice operates not only through human malice but through the indifference of systems that leave the vulnerable exposed.

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