Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

“Behold, I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer;
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 cry out: “Violence!” but get no response;
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.

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.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
צעק 
Tsa`aq 
Usage: 55

but I am not heard
ענה 
`anah 
Usage: 329

שׁוע 
Shava` 
Usage: 21

References

Morish

Context Readings

Job's Sixth Speech: A Response To Bildad

6 know this then: that it is God which hath handled me so violently, and hath compassed me about with his net. 7 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. 8 "He hath hedged up my way, that I cannot pass; he hath set darkness in my gate.

Cross References

Lamentations 3:8

Though I cry and call piteously, yet heareth he not my prayer.

Habakkuk 1:2-3

O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? How long shall I complain unto thee, suffering wrong, and thou wilt not help?

Job 9:24

As for the world, he giveth it over into the power of the wicked; and he shall cover the faces of the judges thereof. Is it not so? Where is he - or who is he - that can show the contrary?

Job 9:32

For he that I must give answer unto, and with whom I go to law, is not a man as I am.

Job 10:3

Thinkest thou it well done, to oppress me, to cast me off - being a work of thine hands - and to maintain the counsel of the ungodly?

Job 10:15-17

If I have done wickedly, woe is me therefore. If I have done righteously, yet dare I not lift up my head; so full am I of confusion, and see mine own misery.

Job 13:15-23

Lo, though he slay me, yet will I put my trust in him. But if I shew and reprove mine own ways in his sight,

Job 16:17-19

"Howbeit there is no wickedness in my hands, and my prayer is clean.

Job 16:21

Though a body might plead with God, as one man doth with another,

Job 21:27

"But I know what ye think; yea, and what ye imagine against me unrighteously.

Job 23:3-7

O that I might see him and find him: O that I might come before his seat,

Job 30:20

When I cry unto thee, thou doest not hear me: and though I stand before thee, yet thou regardest me not.

Job 31:35-36

O that I had one which would hear me. Lo, this is my cause: Let the almighty give me answer, and let him that is my contrary party, sue me with libel.

Job 34:5

And why? Job hath said, 'I am righteous, but God doth me wrong.'

Job 40:8

Wilt thou disannul my judgment? Or wilt thou condemn me, that thou thyself mayest be made righteous?

Psalm 22:2

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not: and in the night season also I take no rest.

Jeremiah 20:8

because I have now preached long against malicious Tyranny, and showed them of destruction. For the which cause they cast the word of the LORD in my teeth, and take me ever to the worst.

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