Job 30:20
I cry to You, || And You do not answer me, I have stood, and You consider me.
Literal Standard 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
19Casting me into mire, || And I have become like dust and ashes.
21You are turned to be fierce to me, || With the strength of Your hand, || You oppress me.
Cross References
Job 19:7Behold, I cry out—violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
Psalms 22:2My God, I call by day, and You do not answer, || And by night, and am not silent.
Psalms 80:4YHWH, God of Hosts, until when? You have burned against the prayer of Your people.
Lamentations 3:8Also when I call and cry out, || He has shut out my prayer.
Matthew 15:23And He did not answer her a word; and His disciples having come to Him, were asking Him, saying, “Let her away, because she cries 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 →