Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
- BSB Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
- 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 3:8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
- Hab 1:2–3O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
- Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
- Job 34:5For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
- Job 30:20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
- Job 23:3–7Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
- Job 31:35–36Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
- Job 40:8Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
- Job 10:15–17If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
- Jer 20:8For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
- Job 16:21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
- Job 16:17–19Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
- Job 9:24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
- Job 9:32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
- Job 13:15–23Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
- Job 10:3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
- Ps 22:2O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
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