Job 30:24
Only, against a heap of ruins, will one not thrust a hand! Surely, when one is in calamity—for that very reason, is there an outcry for help.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
In Context
25Verily I wept, for him whose lot was hard, Grieved was my soul, for the needy.
Cross References
Judges 5:31So, perish all thine enemies, O Yahweh, But be, they who love him, as the going forth of the sun, in his might! And the land had rest forty years.
Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their heart, Aha! to our mind! 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 →