Job 30:24
Truly, then, you do not extend your hand in order to consume them, and if they fall down, you will save them.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
In Context
23I know that you will hand me over to death, where a home has been established for all the living.
25Once, I wept over him who was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.
Cross References
Judges 5:31O Lord, so may all your enemies perish! But may those who love you shine with splendor, as the sun shines at its rising.”
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 →