Job 30:24
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
King James Version
In Context
23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Cross References
Judges 5:31So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: 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 →