Job 19:7

“If ¹  I cry out, ²  ‘Violence!’ ³  I receive no answer; ⁴  I cry for help, but there is no justice.

Job 9:32; Job 10:3,15-17; Job 13:15-23; Job 16:17-19; Job 16:21; Job 21:27; Job 23:3-7; Job 31:35,36; Job 34:5; Job 40:8; Ps 22:2; Jer 20:8; La 3:8; Hab 1:2,3

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.