Job 30:24
Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, 1 Or at least ask another, and he should do this for me. 1
Updated 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: 1 For the earth is the house appointed for every mortal. 1
25Yet I wept over every helpless man; 1 I groaned when I saw a man in distress. 1
Cross References
Judges 5:31Thus let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: 1 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 →