Text -- Job 19:7 (NET)

Job’s Abandonment and Affliction

19:7 “If I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 19:7

¹ tn The particle is used here as in 9:11 (see GKC 497 §159.w).

² tc The LXX has “I laugh at reproach.”

³ 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 tn The Niphal is simply “I am not answered.” See Prov 21:13b.