Job 30:24
Good News Translation
Why do you attack a ruined man, one who can do nothing but beg for pity?

New Revised Standard Version
“Surely one does not turn against the needy, when in disaster they cry for help.

Contemporary English Version
No one refuses help to others, when disaster strikes.

New American Bible
Yet should not a hand be held out to help a wretched person in distress?

Douay-Rheims Bible
But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.

grave.

Judges 5:31 So let all thy enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love thee shine, as the sun shineth in his rising. [32] And the land rested for forty years.

Psalm 35:25 Let them not say in their hearts: It is well, it is well, to our mind: neither let them say: We have swallowed him up.

Matthew 27:39-44 And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, . . .

Context
Job's Prosperity Becomes Calamity
23I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth. 24But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.25I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.…
Cross References
Job 19:7
Behold I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.

Job 31:35
Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,

Job 30:23
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