Job 19:7
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
In Context
6know now that God has subverted me, and has encompassed me with his net.
8He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
Cross References
Job 9:24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not [he], who then is it?
Job 10:3Is it good to thee that thou should oppress, that thou should despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Job 13:15Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
Job 16:21that he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbor!
Job 23:3O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!
Job 31:35O that I had someone to hear me (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me), and [that I had] the indictment which my adversary has written!
Matthew Henry on Job 19:2-8
The Reply of Job to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. 4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: 6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not… Read the whole commentary →