Job 30:24

Verse 24. 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 had to the grave; and when they are wounded, they are healed.” Calmet.—Prot. “grave, though they cry in his destruction.” Bible.—The grave is more desirable than such a life. There the dead are freed from the miseries of this world. Calmet.