Job 30:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁴Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

Job 30:24 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 19:7
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Judges 5:31
So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
Matthew 27:39-44
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, …
Psalms 35:25
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-31)

In this second part of Job’s complaint, which is very bitter, and has a great many sorrowful accents in it, we may observe a great deal that he complains of and some little that he comforts himself with. I. Here is much that he complains of. 1. In general, it was a day of great affliction and sorrow. (1.) Affliction seized him, and surprised him. It seized him (Job 30:16): The days of affliction h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 24)

24. Expressing Job’s faith as to the state after death. Though one must go to the grave, yet He will no more afflict in the ruin of the body (so Hebrew for “grave”) there, if one has cried to Him when being destroyed. The “stretching of His hand” to punish after death answers antithetically to the raising “the cry” of prayer in the second clause. Maurer gives another translation which accords with…