Bible Strands
Job 30:24
Yet no one stretches out his hand against a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job addresses God while trapped in physical decay and social abandonment, positioned between his declaration of impending death and his rhetorical question about his past compassion for the afflicted.
The words — The phrase יִשְׁלַח־ יָ֑ד (yishlach-yad) literally renders "stretches out a hand," describing the physical gesture of rescue that Job reports is completely withheld from him.
The thread — The pattern of abandoned pleas recurs in Job 19:7 where cries receive no response, and in Psalms 35:25 where the distressed are left to face mockery without intervention.
Why it lands — The text records the factual absence of aid to the suffering, requiring the reader to acknowledge that human indifference operates independently of divine timing or personal merit.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
Cross-references
- Judges 5:31 So 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 19:7 Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
- Psalms 35:25 Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!”
- Matthew 27:39 And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads