Job 30:20
I cry to thee, and thou do not answer me. I stand up, and thou gaze at me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
In Context
19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
21Thou have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of thy hand thou persecute me.
Cross References
Job 19:7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
Psalms 22:2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answer not, and in the night season, and I am not silent.
Psalms 80:4O LORD God of hosts, how long will thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
Lamentations 3:8Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Matthew 15:23But he answered her not a word. And his disciples having approached, they besought him, saying, Send her away, because she cries out behind us.
Matthew Henry on Job 30:16-31
Job Complains of His Affliction. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry unto thee,… Read the whole commentary →