Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
- KJV Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
- NKJV “If I cry out concerning wrong, I am not heard. If I cry aloud, there is no justice.
- NASB ¶“Behold, I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice.
- NLT “I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me. I protest, but there is no justice.
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Quick answer
Job cries out against violence and injustice but feels unheard, with no justice answering him. He laments God's apparent silence.
Overview
Job's appeals for vindication seem to vanish unanswered, deepening his sense of abandonment. His complaint that there is 'no justice' voices the believer's struggle when God's righteous response seems delayed. Scripture assures that God hears the cry of the afflicted and will finally set all things right, a justice secured and displayed in Christ (Luke 18:7-8).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- Lam 3:8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
- Hab 1:2–3How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
- Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
- Job 34:5For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
- Job 30:20I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.
- Job 23:3–7If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.
- Job 31:35–36(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
- Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
- Job 10:15–17If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
- Jer 20:8For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.
- Job 16:21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
- Job 16:17–19yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
- Job 9:24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
- Job 9:32For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
- Job 13:15–23Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
- Job 10:3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
- Ps 22:2I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
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