Job 30:24
Doubtles none can stretch his hand vnto the graue, though they cry in his destruction.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
In Context
23Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death, and to the house appoynted for all the liuing.
25Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?
Cross References
Judges 5:31So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but they that loue him, shall be as the Sunne when he riseth in his might, and the lande had rest fourtie yeres.
Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their hearts, O our soule reioyce: neither let them say, We haue deuoured him.
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 →