Job 19:7

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Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.

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  • Hab 1:2-3 : 2 How long, LORD, must I call for help and You do not listen? I cry out to You, 'Violence!' but You do not save. 3 Why do You make me see wrongdoing and observe trouble? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
  • Job 30:20 : 20 I cry out to You, but You do not answer; I stand up, but You just look at me.
  • Job 31:35-36 : 35 Oh, that someone would hear me! I sign now my defense; let the Almighty answer me. Let my accuser write out his charges in a book. 36 Surely I would wear it on my shoulder, I would put it on like a crown.
  • Job 34:5 : 5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice.'
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Would you indeed annul My justice? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?
  • Ps 22:2 : 2 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Far from saving me, from the words of my groaning.
  • Jer 20:8 : 8 Whenever I speak, I cry out, proclaiming violence and destruction. So the word of the LORD has brought me insult and reproach all day long.
  • Job 9:24 : 24 The earth is given into the hands of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
  • Job 9:32 : 32 For He is not a man, like me, that I might answer Him, that we might go to court together.
  • Job 10:3 : 3 Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands, while You favor the plans of the wicked?
  • Job 10:15-17 : 15 If I am wicked, woe to me; if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head, filled with shame and seeing my misery. 16 If I rise up, You hunt me like a lion, and again show Your power against me. 17 You bring new witnesses against me and increase Your anger toward me, bringing forces and hostilities against me.
  • Job 13:15-23 : 15 Though He slay me, yet I will hope in Him. Nevertheless, I will defend my ways before Him. 16 Indeed, this will be my salvation, for no godless person would come before Him. 17 Listen carefully to my words and let my declaration enter your ears. 18 See now, I have prepared my case; I know I will be vindicated. 19 Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish. 20 Only grant me these two things, so that I will not hide myself from You: 21 Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me. 22 Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You respond to me. 23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal my transgression and my sin to me.
  • Job 16:17-19 : 17 Yet my hands are free of violence, and my prayer is pure. 18 O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never find a resting place. 19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my testimony is on high.
  • Job 16:21 : 21 Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as one does for his neighbor.
  • Job 21:27 : 27 Behold, I know your thoughts and the schemes you plot against me.
  • Job 23:3-7 : 3 If only I knew where to find him, so that I might come to his dwelling. 4 I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words he would answer me with and understand what he would say to me. 6 Would he contend with me in his great power? No, he would instead give me strength. 7 There the upright could reason with him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

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