Job 30:24
But doth not a man stretch out his hand among ruins? or doth one not cry out therefrom [for help] when he meeteth his downfall?
Leeser Tanakh
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 thou wilt bring me back to death, and to the house of assembly for all the living.
25Did I not weep for him that was hard pressed by misfortune? was not my soul grieved for the needy?
Cross References
Judges 5:31Thus may perish all thy enemies, O Lord; but may those that love him be as the rising of the sun in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their heart, Aha, [this is the wish of] our soul: let them not 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 →