Yet he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry out in his destruction.
All Commentaries on Job 30:24 Go To Job 30
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Consumption. Thou dealest mercifully with other people: but all the effects of thy anger fall upon me, even here. Septuagint, "O that I might lay hands on myself, or desire another to do this for me! "Hebrew has nothing similar; but is very obscure: "He will not, however, stretch forth his hand to the grave; and when they are wounded, they are healed. "(Calmet)
Protestants, "grave, though they cry in his destruction. "(Haydock)
The grave is more desirable than such a life. There the dead are freed from the miseries of this world. (Calmet)
