16:17 although 1 there is no violence in my hands
and my prayer is pure.
19:7 “If 2 I cry out, 3 ‘Violence!’ 4
I receive no answer; 5
I cry for help,
but there is no justice.
1 tn For the use of the preposition עַל (’al) to introduce concessive clauses, see GKC 499 §160.c.
2 tn The particle is used here as in 9:11 (see GKC 497 §159.w).
3 tc The LXX has “I laugh at reproach.”
4 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.
5 tn The Niphal is simply “I am not answered.” See Prov 21:13b.