The Book of Job, Chapter 30, Verse 24

For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.

King James Version

Howbeit he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

American Standard Version

Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

New English Translation

The Contrast With the Past“Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.

World English Bible

"However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor?

When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation.

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

For what portion of God [is there] from above? and [what] inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

[Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity?