Job 19:7

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Hab 1:2-3 : 2 Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save? 3 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
  • Job 30:20 : 20 I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
  • Job 31:35-36 : 35 oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment! 36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.
  • Job 34:5 : 5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
  • Ps 22:2 : 2 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
  • Jer 20:8 : 8 For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.
  • Job 9:24 : 24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
  • Job 9:32 : 32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that 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 smile on the counsel of the wicked?
  • Job 10:15-17 : 15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction. 16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me. 17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
  • Job 13:15-23 : 15 Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him. 16 This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him. 17 Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears. 18 See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous. 19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit. 20 "Only don't do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face: 21 withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror 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 disobedience and my sin.
  • Job 16:17-19 : 17 Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. 18 "Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest. 19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
  • Job 16:21 : 21 that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
  • Job 21:27 : 27 "Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong 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 set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me. 6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me. 7 There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

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