Job 30:24
“When people experience disasters, and they sit on a pile of ruins and cry out for help, others surely [RHQ] reach out their hand to help them.
Translation for Translators
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 he will cause me to die, which is what happens to everyone [MTY] who is alive.
Cross References
Judges 5:31But that is not what happened! Yahweh, I hope that all your enemies will die as Sisera did! And I desire that all those who love you will be as strong as the sun when it rises!
Psalms 35:25Do not allow them to be able to say to themselves, “Yes, we have gotten rid of him [IDM] just like we desired!”
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 →