Job’s Prosperity Becomes Calamity
Job 30:24
In 11 translations
- 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.grave: Heb. heap
- 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?
- LSV
- Surely not against the heap || Does He send forth the hand, || Though they have safety in its ruin.
- YLT
- Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.
- DBY
- Indeed, no prayer [availeth] when he stretcheth out [his] hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.
- DRC
- But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.
- GNV
- Doubtles none can stretch his hand vnto the graue, though they cry in his destruction.
- JPS
- Surely none shall put forth his hand to a ruinous heap, neither because of these things shall help come in one's calamity,
- LXXE
- Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אַ֣ךְ לֹא־בְ֭עִי יִשְׁלַח־יָ֑ד אִם־בְּ֝פִיד֗וֹ לָהֶ֥ן שֽׁוּעַ׃
- LXX-Br
- Εἰ γὰρ ὄφελον δυναίμην ἐμαυτὸν χειρώσασθαι, ἢ δεηθείς γε ἑτέρου, καὶ ποιήσει μοι τοῦτο.
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◆ Job's Trial
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!”
- Matthew 27:39–44And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”…
- Judges 5:31So 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.
- Job 19:7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
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