Bible Strands
Job 19:7
Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job addresses his companions during his trial, positioned between his claim that God has ensnared him (Job 19:6) and his report of divine obstruction (Job 19:8).
The words — The Hebrew term חָמָס (cha.mas) denotes violent oppression, paired with אֵעָנֶ֑ה ('e.a.Neh), meaning "I am answered," to mark the absolute silence following his plea.
The thread — The motif of unheeded cries against violence appears in Lamentations 3:8 and Habakkuk 1:2, where God's refusal to respond to pleas for justice is similarly recorded.
Why it lands — The text states that righteous suffering can proceed without immediate divine intervention or earthly justice, requiring the reader to acknowledge unresolved anguish rather than assume swift resolution.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Cross-references
- Lamentations 3:8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
- Habakkuk 1:2 How 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 21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
- Job 23:3 If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.
- Job 30:20 I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.
- Job 31:35 (Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
- Job 34:5 For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
- Job 40:8 Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
- Job 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
- Job 9:32 For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.