Job 19:16

World English Bible (2000)

I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.

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  • Job 1:15-17 : 15 and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you." 16 While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you." 17 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
  • Job 1:19 : 19 and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you."

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    17My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

    18Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

  • 15Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.

  • Job 9:14-16
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    14How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

    15Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

    16If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.

  • 20I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

  • 7"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

  • 22Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.

  • 6I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn't find him. I called him, but he didn't answer.

  • 17I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.

  • 6I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

  • 19Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

  • 14Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

  • 1I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.

  • 13"If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

  • 6"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

  • 11"Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 2My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

  • 24Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

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  • 2Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

  • 14for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.

  • 19A servant can't be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond.

  • 41They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.

  • 19How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

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    1My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

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  • 8Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

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  • 20I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.

  • 16Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

  • 1Then Job answered,

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