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.

"Though I cry, ‘I’ve been wronged!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

"Behold, I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice.

"I cry out for help, but no one hears me. I protest, but there is no justice.

"Look at me--I shout 'Murder!' and I'm ignored; I call for help and no one bothers to stop.

Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

Even when I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.

"If I cry out concerning wrong, I am not heard. If I cry aloud, there is no justice.

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

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.