Job 30:25

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

Key Reflection

In Job 30:25, this verse underscores the human condition where individuals seek divine intervention during times of distress. It highlights the universal experience of turning to God when faced with adversity, reflecting a common plea for salvation and mercy.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Did not I weep ... -Job here appeals to his former life, and says that it had been a characteristic of his life to manifest compassion to the afflicted and the poor. His object in doing this is, evidently, to show how remarkable it was that he was so much afflicted. “Did I deserve,” the sense is, “such a hard lot? Has it been brought on me by my own fault, or as a punishment for a life where no compassion was shown to others?” So far from it, he says, that his whole life had been distinguished for tender compassion for those in distress and want. In trouble -Margin, as in Hebrew, hard of day.

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