Job 30:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ “Surely one does not turn against the needy, when in disaster they cry for help.

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

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²⁴ However, does not one falling in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand? Or in his calamity will he not therefore cry for help?

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²⁴ Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

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²⁴ Surely he won’t strike someone in ruins if in distress he cries out to him,

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²⁴ Truly, then, you do not extend your hand in order to consume them, and if they fall down, you will save them.

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Do not let them say to themselves, “Aha, we have our heart’s desire.” Do not let them say, “We have swallowed you up.”

Even when I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.

So perish all your enemies, O Lord! But may your friends be like the sun as it rises in its might.” And the land had rest forty years.

O that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) O that I had the indictment written by my adversary!