Job 19:7
Behold, I cry out concerning the violence [done me], but I am not answered: I entreat aloud, but there is no justice.
Leeser Tanakh
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
6Then know for certain that God hath bent me down, and hath laid his net all around me.
8My road hath he fenced up, so that I cannot pass out; and on my paths he placeth darkness.
Cross References
Job 9:24Is a land given up into the hand of the wicked? he covereth the faces of its judges: if this be not the truth, who is it then?
Job 10:3Is it well for thee that thou shouldst oppress, that thou shouldst reject the labor of thy hands, and shed light upon the counsel of the wicked?
Job 13:15Lo, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: only I will argue my own ways before him.
Job 16:21And oh that a man might plead with God, as one son of earth with the other!
Job 23:3Oh who would grant that I knew where I might find him! that I might attain to his Judgment throne!
Job 31:35Oh who will bring me one that would hear me! behold, here is my plea; may the Almighty answer me; and any record which my opponent may have 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 →