Job 19:7
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.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
- KJV
- Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
- WEB
- “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
- ASV
- Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
- DARBY
- Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
- BLB
- Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ And I am not answered. I cry for help, [and] there is no justice.
- ÅB
- Se, jeg roper: Vold! - men jeg får intet svar; jeg skriker om hjelp, men det er ingen rett å få.
- OTB
- «Selv om jeg roper, ‘Vold!’ får jeg ikke svar;
jeg roper om hjelp, men det er ingen rettferdighet. - B1930
- Se, jeg roper: Vold! - men jeg får intet svar; jeg skriker om hjelp, men det er ingen rett å få.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Habakkuk 1:2–3
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Read in contextLamentations 3:8
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Read in contextJob 23:3–7
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Read in contextJob 40:8
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
Read in contextJob 31:35–36
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Read in contextJob 21:27
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Read in contextJob 34:5
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
Read in contextJob 30:20
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
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