Job 30:20
You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.
Bible in Basic English
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
19Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
21You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.
Cross References
Job 19:7Truly, 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.
Psalms 22:2\22:1\My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?
Psalms 80:4\80:3\Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
Lamentations 3:8Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
Matthew 15:23But he gave her no answer. And his disciples came and said to him, Send her away, for she is crying after 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 →