Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.
New American Standard Bible
I shout for help, but there is no justice.
King James Version
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Holman Bible
I call for help, but there is no justice.
International Standard Version
"Although I cried out "Violence!' I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice.
A Conservative Version
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
American Standard Version
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
Amplified
“Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not heard;
I shout for help, but there is no justice.
Darby Translation
Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, I shall cry violence, and shall I not be answered: I shall cry for help, and no judgment
King James 2000
Behold, I cry out concerning wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no justice.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Look, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I cry out, but there is no justice.
Modern King James verseion
Behold, I cry out, Violence! And I am not answered. I cry aloud, but there is no justice.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold: though I cry, yet violence is done unto me. I cannot be heard! Though I complain, there is none to give sentence with me.
NET Bible
"If I cry out, 'Violence!' I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.
New Heart English Bible
"Behold, I cry out 'Injustice.' but there is no justice.
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! I cry - out: Violence! but receive no answer, I cry aloud, but there is no vindication;
Webster
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
World English Bible
"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 19:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Sixth Speech: A Response To Bildad
6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net. 7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause. 8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
Phrases
Cross References
Lamentations 3:8
Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
Habakkuk 1:2-3
How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.
Job 9:24
The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?
Job 9:32
For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.
Job 10:3
What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?
Job 10:15-17
That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.
Job 13:15-23
Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;
Job 16:17-19
Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
Job 16:21
So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
Job 21:27
See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;
Job 23:3-7
If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!
Job 30:20
You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.
Job 31:35-36
If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!
Job 34:5
For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;
Job 40:8
Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?
Psalm 22:2
O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
Jeremiah 20:8
For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.