Discovery BoxJob 19:7 
Context19:7 “If 1 I cry out, 2 ‘Violence!’ 3
I receive no answer; 4
I cry for help,
but there is no justice.
Job 27:2
Context27:2 “As surely as God lives, 5 who has denied me justice, 6
the Almighty, who has made my life bitter 7 –
Job 34:17
Contextthat one who hates justice can govern? 9
And will you declare guilty
the supremely righteous 10 One,
Job 36:17
Context36:17 But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked,
judgment and justice take hold of you.
Job 40:8
Context40:8 Would you indeed annul 11 my justice?
Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
1 tn The particle is used here as in 9:11 (see GKC 497 §159.w).
2 tc The LXX has “I laugh at reproach.”
3 tn The same idea is expressed in Jer 20:8 and Hab 1:2. The cry is a cry for help, that he has been wronged, that there is no justice.
4 tn The Niphal is simply “I am not answered.” See Prov 21:13b.
5 tn The expression חַי־אֵל (khay-’el) is the oath formula: “as God lives.” In other words, the speaker is staking God’s life on the credibility of the words. It is like saying, “As truly as God is alive.”
6 tn “My judgment” would here, as before, be “my right.” God has taken this away by afflicting Job unjustly (A. B. Davidson, Job, 187).
7 tn The verb הֵמַר (hemar) is the Hiphil perfect from מָרַר (marar, “to be bitter”) and hence, “to make bitter.” The object of the verb is “my soul,” which is better translated as “me” or “my life.”
8 tn The force of הַאַף (ha’af) is “Is it truly the case?” The point is being made that if Job were right God could not be judging the world.
9 tn The verb חָבַשׁ (khavash) has the basic idea of “to bind,” as in binding on the yoke, and then in the sense of subduing people under authority (cf. Assyrian absanu). The imperfect verb here is best expressed with the potential nuance.
10 tn The two words could be taken separately, but they seem to form a fine nominal hendiadys, because the issue is God’s justice. So the word for power becomes the modifier.
11 tn The verb פָּרַר (parar) means “to annul; to break; to frustrate.” It was one thing for Job to claim his own integrity, but it was another matter altogether to nullify God’s righteousness in the process.
