Job 30:24
Yet no one stretches out his hand against a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
In Context
23Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
25Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
Cross References
Judges 5:31So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.
Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” 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 →