Job 30:24
Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
In Context
23For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house appointed for every mortal.
25Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.
Cross References
Judges 5:31Thus let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: and they that love him shall be as the going forth of the sun in his strength. And the land had rest forty years.
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 →