Job 30:24
Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
In Context
25Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?
Cross References
Judges 5:31So may destruction come on all your haters, O Lord; but let your lovers be like the sun going out in his strength. And for forty years the land had peace.
Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.
Matthew Henry on Job 30:16-31
Job Complains of His Affliction. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry unto thee,… Read the whole commentary →