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23 I know you are taking me off to my death,
    to the fate in store for everyone.
24 Why do you attack a ruined man,
    one who can do nothing but beg for pity?[a]
25 Didn't I weep with people in trouble
    and feel sorry for those in need?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:24 Verse 24 in Hebrew is unclear.

23 I know you will bring me down to death,(A)
    to the place appointed for all the living.(B)

24 “Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man(C)
    when he cries for help in his distress.(D)
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble?(E)
    Has not my soul grieved for the poor?(F)

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

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

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

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