Job 19:7
Job’s Abandonment and Affliction
7 “If ▼▼ The particle is used here as in
9:11 (see GKC 497 #159.
w).
I cry out, ▼▼ The LXX has “I laugh at reproach.”
‘Violence!’ ▼▼ The same idea is expressed in
Jer 20:8 and
Hab 1:2. The cry is a cry for help, that he has been wronged, that there is no justice.
I receive no answer; ▼▼ The Niphal is simply “I am not answered.” See
Prov 21:13b.
I cry for help,
but there is no justice.