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22     You pull me up into the wind and make me ride upon it
        until I am fractured and dissipated in the storm.
23     I know where this ends.
        You will send me off to death
        and usher me to that meetinghouse where all the living one day go.

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]

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Footnotes

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

22 You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;(A)
    you toss me about in the storm.(B)
23 I know you will bring me down to death,(C)
    to the place appointed for all the living.(D)

24 “Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man(E)
    when he cries for help in his distress.(F)

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