Job 30:24
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.In other versions
Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
ASV
Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?
BBE
Indeed, no prayer [availeth] when he stretcheth out [his] hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.
DBY
"However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
WEB
Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.
YLT
Nevertheless he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
ENG
Yet he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
WBT
Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
BSB
In context
22Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
24Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
