Job 19:7
Good News Translation
I protest his violence, but no one is listening; no one hears my cry for justice.

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

Contemporary English Version
Though I pray to be rescued from this torment, no whisper of justice answers me.

New American Bible
If I cry out “Violence!” I am not answered. I shout for help, but there is no justice.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.

I cry

Job 10:3,15-17 Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked? . . .

Job 16:17-19 These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God. . . .

Job 21:27 Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.

Psalm 22:2 O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.

Jeremiah 20:8 For I am speaking now this long time, crying out against iniquity, and I often proclaim devastation: and the word of the Lord is made a reproach to me, and a derision all the day.

Lamentations 3:8 Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.

Habakkuk 1:2,3 How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? shall I cry out to thee suffering violence, and thou wilt not save? . . .

wrong.

Job 9:32 For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.

Job 13:15-23 Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight. . . .

Job 16:21 And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!

Job 23:3-7 Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne? . . .

Job 31:35,36 Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book, . . .

Job 34:5 For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment.

Job 40:8 Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?

Context
Job: My Redeemer Lives
6At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges. 7Behold I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.8He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.…
Cross References
Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?

Job 30:20
I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.

Job 30:24
But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.

Job 30:28
I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.

Job 31:35
Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,

Habakkuk 1:2
How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? shall I cry out to thee suffering violence, and thou wilt not save?

Job 19:6
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