Job 30:24
Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.
Young's Literal Translation
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 have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And [to] the house appointed for all living.
25Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.
Cross References
Judges 5:31So do all Thine enemies perish, O Jehovah, And those loving Him [are] As the going out of the sun in its might!' and the land resteth forty years.
Psalms 35:25They do not say in their heart, 'Aha, our desire.' They do not say, 'We 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 →