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Job’s Abandonment and Affliction

“If[a] I cry out,[b] ‘Violence!’[c]
I receive no answer;[d]
I cry for help,
but there is no justice.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:7 tn The particle is used here as in 9:11 (see GKC 497 §159.w).
  2. Job 19:7 tc The LXX has “I laugh at reproach.”
  3. Job 19:7 tn 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.
  4. Job 19:7 tn The Niphal is simply “I am not answered.” See Prov 21:13b.