Job 19:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Hab 1:2-3 : 2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and You will not hear! Even cry out to You of violence, and You will not save! 3 Why do You show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; there are those who raise up strife and contention.
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.
  • Job 30:20 : 20 I cry to You, and You do not hear me: I stand up, and You regard 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 my 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 has said, I am righteous; and God has taken away my justice.
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Will you also annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
  • Ps 22:2 : 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; and in the night season, and am not silent.
  • Jer 20:8 : 8 For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach to me, and a derision, daily.
  • Job 9:24 : 24 The earth is given into the hand 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, as I am, that I should answer Him, and we should come together in judgment.
  • Job 10:3 : 3 Is it good to You that You should oppress, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
  • Job 10:15-17 : 15 If I am wicked, woe to me; and if I am righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see my affliction; 16 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion; and again You show Yourself marvelous upon me. 17 You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
  • Job 13:15-23 : 15 Though he slays me, yet will I trust in him; but I will defend my own ways before him. 16 He also shall be my salvation, for a hypocrite shall not come before him. 17 Listen diligently to my speech, and my declaration with your ears. 18 Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be justified. 19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I keep silent, I shall die. 20 Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from you. 21 Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not your dread make me afraid. 22 Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me. 23 How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my transgression and my sin.
  • Job 16:17-19 : 17 Not for any injustice in my hands; also, my prayer is pure. 18 O earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry find no resting place. 19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
  • Job 16:21 : 21 Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!
  • Job 21:27 : 27 Behold, I know your thoughts and the schemes you 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 present my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me. 6 Will he contend with me in his great power? No; but he would strengthen me. 7 There the righteous might dispute with him, so I would be delivered forever from my judge.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 30:19-20
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    19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

    20I cry to You, and You do not hear me: I stand up, and You regard me not.

  • 8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

  • 6Know now that God has overthrown me and has surrounded me with His net.

  • Lam 3:7-9
    3 verses
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    7He has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.

    8Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.

    9He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

  • Job 9:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would plead with my Judge.

    16If I had called, and He had answered me; yet would I not believe that He had listened to my voice.

  • Job 23:7-8
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    7There the righteous might dispute with him, so I would be delivered forever from my judge.

    8Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive him.

  • 19If I speak of strength, lo, He is mighty: and if of judgment, who shall set a time for me to plead?

  • Job 13:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    18Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be justified.

    19Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I keep silent, I shall die.

  • 9Because of the multitude of oppressions, they make the oppressed cry: they cry out by reason of the power of the mighty.

  • Job 7:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

    12Am I a sea, or a monster, that you set a watch over me?

  • 9Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

  • 13Is not my help within me? And is wisdom driven quite from me?

  • 5For Job has said, I am righteous; and God has taken away my justice.

  • 1I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and He listened to me.

  • 2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; and in the night season, and am not silent.

  • Hab 1:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3Why do You show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; there are those who raise up strife and contention.

    4Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth, for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.

  • 8Will you also annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

  • 32For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, and we should come together in judgment.

  • 2Attend to me, and hear me; I mourn in my complaint and make a noise,

  • 59O LORD, You have seen my wrong; judge my case.

  • 41They cried, but there was none to save them: even to the LORD, but he did not answer them.

  • 1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

  • 1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal very treacherously?

  • 17Not for any injustice in my hands; also, my prayer is pure.

  • 38If my land cries against me, or its furrows likewise complain;

  • 1I cried to the LORD with my voice; with my voice to the LORD did I make my plea.

  • 9I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me; he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

  • 28I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that You will not hold me innocent.

  • Job 16:20-21
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    73%

    20My friends scorn me, but my eye pours out tears to God.

    21Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!

  • 21And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

  • 12There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

  • 24Judge me, O LORD my God, according to your righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

  • 4As for me, is my complaint to a man? And if it were, why should my spirit not be troubled?

  • 28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

  • 22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.

  • 16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I pleaded with him with my mouth.

  • 9Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but see obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

  • 7You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of Your hand.

  • 20But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have presented my case to you.

  • 25Did I not weep for those in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

  • 35Oh that one would hear me! Behold, my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.