Job 19:7

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

‫הֵ֤ן אֶצְעַ֣ק חָ֭מָס וְלֹ֣א אֵעָנֶ֑ה אֲ֝שַׁוַּ֗ע וְאֵ֣ין מִשְׁפָּֽט׃‬

Transliteration

hēn ʾeṣʿaq ḥāmās wə-lō ʾēʿāneh ʾăšawwaʿ wə-ʾên mišpāṭ

Grammar Details

• *hēn*: interjection - behold
• *ʾeṣʿaq*: qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I cry out
• *ḥāmās*: noun common masculine singular - violence/wrong
• *wə-lō*: waw conjunction + negative particle - and not
• *ʾēʿāneh*: niphal imperfect, 1st person singular - I am answered
• *ʾăšawwaʿ*: piel imperfect, 1st person singular - I cry for help
• *wə-ʾên*: waw conjunction + particle of negation - and there is no
• *mišpāṭ*: noun common masculine singular - justice/judgment

Word Meanings

• *ṣāʿaq*: to cry/call out
• *ḥāmās*: violence/wrong/injustice
• *ʿānāh*: to answer/respond
• *šāwaʿ*: to cry out for help
• *mišpāṭ*: justice/judgment/legal process

Referenced Verses

• Hab 1:2-3 : 2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! 3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
• Lam 3:8 : 8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
• Job 30:20 : 20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
• Job 31:35-36 : 35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. 36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
• Job 34:5 : 5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
• Job 40:8 : 8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
• Ps 22:2 : 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
• Jer 20:8 : 8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
• Job 9:24 : 24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
• Job 9:32 : 32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
• Job 10:3 : 3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
• Job 10:15-17 : 15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; 16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. 17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
• Job 13:15-23 : 15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. 16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. 17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. 18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. 19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. 20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. 21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. 22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. 23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
• Job 16:17-19 : 17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. 18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. 19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
• Job 16:21 : 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
• Job 21:27 : 27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
• Job 23:3-7 : 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. 6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. 7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.