Job 19:7
Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.
Bible in Basic English
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
6Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.
8My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
Cross References
Job 9:24The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?
Job 10:3What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?
Job 13:15Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;
Job 16:21So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
Job 23:3If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!
Job 31:35If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!
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 →