Job 30:24
“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
World English Bible Classic
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 you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.
25Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
Cross References
Judges 5:31“So let all your enemies perish, LORD, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.
Psalms 35:25Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them 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 →