Verse 7

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.