Job 19:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

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Referenced Verses

  • Hab 1:2-3 : 2 How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation. 3 Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
  • Job 30:20 : 20 You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.
  • Job 31:35-36 : 35 If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing! 36 Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown;
  • Job 34:5 : 5 For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.
  • Ps 22:2 : 2 O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
  • Jer 20:8 : 8 For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.
  • Job 9:24 : 24 The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?
  • Job 9:32 : 32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.
  • Job 10:3 : 3 What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?
  • Job 10:15-17 : 15 That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble. 16 And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me: 17 That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.
  • Job 13:15-23 : 15 Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him; 16 And that will be my salvation, for an evil-doer would not come before him, 17 Give ear with care to my words, and keep what I say in your minds. 18 See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right. 19 Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath. 20 Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face: 21 Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you. 22 Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer. 23 What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them.
  • Job 16:17-19 : 17 Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean. 18 O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place! 19 Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high.
  • Job 16:21 : 21 So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
  • Job 21:27 : 27 See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;
  • Job 23:3-7 : 3 If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat! 4 I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments. 5 I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me. 6 Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me. 7 There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

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