Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
However does not a man stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
New American Standard Bible
Or in his disaster therefore
King James Version
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
Holman Bible
against a ruined man
when he cries out to him for help
because of his distress.
International Standard Version
"Surely he won't stretch his hand against the needy, will he, especially if they cry to him in their calamity?
American Standard Version
Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
Amplified
“However, does not one falling in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand?
Or in his disaster [will he not] therefore cry out for help?
Bible in Basic English
Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?
Darby Translation
Indeed, no prayer availeth when he stretcheth out his hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.
Julia Smith Translation
But prayer is nothing; he will send forth the hand, if in his calamity to them a cry for help.
King James 2000
Yet he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry out in his destruction.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Surely someone must not send a hand against [the] needy when, in his misfortune, [there is] a cry of help for them.
Modern King James verseion
Surely He will not stretch out His hand to the ruin-heap, though they cry in their misfortune.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Now use not men to do violence unto them, that are destroyed already; but where hurt is done, there use they to help.
NET Bible
"Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.
New Heart English Bible
"However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
The Emphasized Bible
Only, against a heap of ruins, will one not thrust a hand! Surely, when one is in calamity - for that very reason, is there an outcry for help.
Webster
Yet he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
World English Bible
"However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
Youngs Literal Translation
Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.
Interlinear
Shalach
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 30:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Says: I Am Being Punished By God
23 For I know that thou will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. 24 However does not a man stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help? 25 Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
Phrases
Cross References
Judges 5:31
So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD, but let those who love him be as the sun when he goes forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
Job 19:7
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
Psalm 35:25
Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Matthew 27:39-44
And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads,