Job 30:24
22 You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
23 Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
26 But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
- KJV
- Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
- WEB
- “However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
- ASV
- Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
- DARBY
- Indeed, no prayer [availeth] when he stretcheth out [his] hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.
- BLB
- Surely one does not stretch out a hand against the oppressed, when in his ruin he cries out to [him].
- ÅB
- Dog, rekker ikke mennesket ut sin hånd når alt synker i grus? Skriker han ikke om hjelp når han er kommet i ulykke?
- OTB
- Men strekker man ikke ut sin hånd i en ruinhaug,
eller i sin ulykke derfor roper om hjelp? - B1930
- Dog, rekker ikke mennesket ut sin hånd når alt synker i grus? Skriker han ikke om hjelp når han er kommet i ulykke?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 27:39–44
And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads
Read in contextPsalms 35:25
Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!”
Read in contextJudges 5:31
So may all your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.
Read in contextJob 19:7
Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
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