Job 19:7
Job’s Abandonment and Affliction“If I cry out,‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.
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- Hab 1:2-3 : 2 How long, LORD, must I cry for help? But you do not listen! I call out to you,“Violence!” But you do not deliver! 3 Why do you force me to witness injustice? Why do you put up with wrongdoing? Destruction and violence confront me; conflict is present and one must endure strife.
- Lam 3:8 : 8 Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.
- Job 30:20 : 20 I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.
- Job 31:35-36 : 35 Job’s Appeal“If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature– let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written. 36 Surely I would wear it proudly on my shoulder, I would bind it on me like a crown;
- Job 34:5 : 5 For Job says,‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.
- Job 40:8 : 8 Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
- Ps 22:2 : 2 My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.
- Jer 20:8 : 8 For whenever I prophesy, I must cry out,“Violence and destruction are coming!” This message from the LORD has made me an object of continual insults and derision.
- Job 9:24 : 24 If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, 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 human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.
- Job 10:3 : 3 Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?
- Job 10:15-17 : 15 If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction. 16 If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me. 17 You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.
- Job 13:15-23 : 15 Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face! 16 Moreover, this will become my deliverance, for no godless person would come before him. 17 Listen carefully to my words; let your ears be attentive to my explanation. 18 See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I am right. 19 Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die. 20 Only in two things spare me, O God, and then I will not hide from your face: 21 Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror. 22 Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you respond to me. 23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Show me my transgression and my sin.
- Job 16:17-19 : 17 although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure. 18 An Appeal to God as Witness“O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry. 19 Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.
- Job 16:21 : 21 and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.
- Job 21:27 : 27 Futile Words, Deceptive Answers“Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
- Job 23:3-7 : 3 O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence! 4 I would lay out my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know with what words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me. 6 Would he contend with me with great power? No, he would only pay attention to me. 7 There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.
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19 He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
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15 Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.
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7 There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.
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19 If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say,‘Who will summon me?’
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18 See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I am right.
19 Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.
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9 “People cry out because of the excess of oppression; they cry out for help because of the power of the mighty.
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9 Does God listen to his cry when distress overtakes him?
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5 For Job says,‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.
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1 For the music director, Jeduthun; a psalm of Asaph. I will cry out to God and call for help! I will cry out to God and he will pay attention to me.
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2 My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.
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3 Why do you force me to witness injustice? Why do you put up with wrongdoing? Destruction and violence confront me; conflict is present and one must endure strife.
4 For this reason the law lacks power, and justice is never carried out. Indeed, the wicked intimidate the innocent. For this reason justice is perverted.
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8 Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
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32 For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.
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2 Pay attention to me and answer me! I am so upset and distressed, I am beside myself,
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59 You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; pronounce judgment on my behalf!
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41 They cry out, but there is no one to help them; they cry out to the LORD, but he does not answer them.
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1 Vindicate me, O God! Fight for me against an ungodly nation! Deliver me from deceitful and evil men!
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1 LORD, you have always been fair whenever I have complained to you. However, I would like to speak with you about the disposition of justice. Why are wicked people successful? Why do all dishonest people have such easy lives?
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17 although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.
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38 Job’s Final Solemn Oath“If my land cried out against me and all its furrows wept together,
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1 A well-written song by David, when he was in the cave; a prayer. To the LORD I cry out; to the LORD I plead for mercy.
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9 I must endure the LORD’s fury, for I have sinned against him. But then he will defend my cause, and accomplish justice on my behalf. He will lead me out into the light; I will witness his deliverance.
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28 I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.
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20 My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
21 and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.
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21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”
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12 Then they cry out– but he does not answer– because of the arrogance of the wicked.
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24 Vindicate me by your justice, O LORD my God! Do not let them gloat over me!
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4 Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?
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28 I go about blackened, but not by the sun; in the assembly I stand up and cry for help.
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22 I jumped to conclusions and said,“I am cut off from your presence!” But you heard my plea for mercy when I cried out to you for help.
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16 I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth.
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9 Israel Confesses its Sin For this reason deliverance is far from us and salvation does not reach us. We wait for light, but see only darkness; we wait for a bright light, but live in deep darkness.
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7 although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?
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20 So I said,“O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, you are a just judge! You examine people’s hearts and minds. I want to see you pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause.”
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25 Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
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35 Job’s Appeal“If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature– let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written.