Job 30:24

Job’s Prosperity Becomes Calamity · Job 30:15–31
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Translations

Modern
Yet no one stretches out his hand against a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
Traditional
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
Literal
Surely one does not stretch out a hand against the oppressed, when in his ruin he cries out to him.
Latin
Verumtamen non ad consumptionem eorum emittis manum tuam: et si corruerint, ipse salvabis.

Original

Hebrew
English
Yet no one stretches out his hand against a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.

Notes

Job compares his past happiness, honor, and wealth with his current loss of social dignity and divine friendship (chapters 29 and 30). He ends his speech with broad vows of innocence (chapter 31).

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