Job 30:20
New International Version
“I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.

New Living Translation
“I cry to you, O God, but you don’t answer. I stand before you, but you don’t even look.

English Standard Version
I cry to you for help and you do not answer me; I stand, and you only look at me.

Berean Standard Bible
I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.

King James Bible
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

New King James Version
“I cry out to You, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You regard me.

New American Standard Bible
“I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.

NASB 1995
“I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.

NASB 1977
“I cry out to Thee for help, but Thou dost not answer me; I stand up, and Thou dost turn Thy attention against me.

Legacy Standard Bible
I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You carefully consider how to be against me.

Amplified Bible
“I cry to You for help, [Lord,] but You do not answer me; I stand up, but You [only] gaze [indifferently] at me.

Christian Standard Bible
I cry out to you for help, but you do not answer me; when I stand up, you merely look at me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me; when I stand up, You merely look at me.

American Standard Version
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not answer me: I stand up, and thou gazest at me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I shall cry to you and you will not answer me; I stood and you noticed me

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And I have cried to thee, but thou hearest me not: but they stood still, and observed me.

Contemporary English Version
I beg God for help, but there is no answer; and when I stand up, he simply stares.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.

English Revised Version
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not answer me: I stand up, and thou lookest at me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"I call to you for help, but you don't answer me. I stand up, but you just look at me.

Good News Translation
I call to you, O God, but you never answer; and when I pray, you pay no attention.

International Standard Version
I cry for help to you, but you won't answer me; I stand still, but you only look at me.

JPS Tanakh 1917
I cry unto Thee, and Thou dost not answer me; I stand up, and Thou lookest at me.

Literal Standard Version
I cry to You, | And You do not answer me, I have stood, and You consider me.

Majority Standard Bible
I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.

New American Bible
I cry to you, but you do not answer me; I stand, but you take no notice.

NET Bible
I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.

New Revised Standard Version
I cry to you and you do not answer me; I stand, and you merely look at me.

New Heart English Bible
I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

Webster's Bible Translation
I cry to thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

World English Bible
I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

Young's Literal Translation
I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.

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Context
Job's Prosperity Becomes Calamity
19He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes. 20I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me. 21You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.…

Cross References
Job 19:7
Though I cry out, 'Violence!' I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

Job 31:35
(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.

Lamentations 3:8
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.


Treasury of Scripture

I cry to you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you regard me not.

I cry

Job 19:7
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

Psalm 22:2
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

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Job 30
1. Job's honor is turned into extreme contempt
15. and his prosperity into calamity














(20) Thou regardest me not.--The Authorised Version understands that the negative of the first clause must be supplied in the second, as is the case in Psalm 9:18 : "The needy shall not always be forgotten; the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever." Others understand it, "I stand up (i.e., to pray) in the attitude of prayer, and Thou lookest at me," i.e., and doest no more with mute indifference.

Verse 20. - I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me. It is the worst of all calamities to be God-forsaken, as Job believed himself to be, because he had no immediate answer to his prayers. The bitterest cry upon the cross was "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" But no good man is ever really God-forsaken, and no rightful and earnest prayers are ever really unheard. Job "had need of patience" (Hebrews 10:36), patient as he was (James 5:11). He should have trusted God more, and complained less. I stand up, and thou regardest me not; rather, I stand up, as the manner of the Jews usually was in prayer (Luke 18:11), and thou lookest at me (see the Revised Version). Job's complaint is that, when he stands up and stretches out his hands to God in prayer, God simply looks on, does nothing, gives him no help.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I cry out to You
אֵ֭לֶיךָ (’ê·le·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

for help,
אֲשַׁוַּ֣ע (’ă·šaw·wa‘)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7768: To be free, to halloo

but You do not
וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

answer;
תַעֲנֵ֑נִי (ṯa·‘ă·nê·nî)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 6030: To answer, respond

when I stand up,
עָ֝מַ֗דְתִּי (‘ā·maḏ·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5975: To stand, in various relations

You merely look at me.
וַתִּתְבֹּ֥נֶן (wat·tiṯ·bō·nen)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 995: To separate mentally, understand


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