Job 30:24
But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.
25I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.
Cross References
Judges 5:31So let all thy enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love thee shine, as the sun shineth in his rising.
Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their hearts : It is well, it is well, to our mind : neither let them say : We have swallowed him up.
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 →