Add parallel Print Page Options

24     And yet does not a person trapped in ruins stretch out his hand,
        and in this disaster does he not cry out for help?[a]
25     Did I not grieve for the hard days of another
        or weep for the pains of the poor?
26     And yet when I longed for the good, evil came;
        when I awaited the light, thick darkness arrived instead.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 30:24 Meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

24 “Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man(A)
    when he cries for help in his distress.(B)
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble?(C)
    Has not my soul grieved for the poor?(D)
26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
    when I looked for light, then came darkness.(E)

Read full chapter