Job 19:7

Job's Sixth Speech: A Response To Bildad

⁶ Know then that God has wronged me
And has closed His net around me. ⁷ “Behold, I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer;
I shout for help, but there is no justice.
⁸ “He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put darkness on my paths.

Cry for Help

Job

No

Lamentations 3:8

Even when I cry out and call for help,
He shuts out my prayer.

Habakkuk 1:2-3

How long, O Lord, will I call for help,
And You will not hear?
I cry out to You, “Violence!”
Yet You do not save.

Job 9:24

“The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
He covers the faces of its judges.
If it is not He, then who is it?

Job 9:32

“For He is not a man as I am that I may answer Him,
That we may go to court together.

Job 10:3

‘Is it right for You indeed to oppress,
To reject the labor of Your hands,
And to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked?

Job 10:15-17

‘If I am wicked, woe to me!
And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery.

Job 13:15-23

“Though He slay me,
I will hope in Him.
Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him.

Job 16:17-19

Although there is no violence in my hands,
And my prayer is pure.

Job 16:21

“O that a man might plead with God
As a man with his neighbor!

Job 21:27

“Behold, I know your thoughts,
And the plans by which you would wrong me.

Job 23:3-7

“Oh that I knew where I might find Him,
That I might come to His seat!

Job 30:20

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

Job 31:35-36

“Oh that I had one to hear me!
Behold, here is my signature;
Let the Almighty answer me!
And the indictment which my adversary has written,

Job 34:5

“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous,
But God has taken away my right;

Job 40:8

“Will you really annul My judgment?
Will you condemn Me that you may be justified?

Psalm 22:2

O my God, I cry by day, but You do not answer;
And by night, but I have no rest.

Jeremiah 20:8

For each time I speak, I cry aloud;
I proclaim violence and destruction,
Because for me the word of the Lord has resulted
In reproach and derision all day long.