Job 16:17

16:17 although ¹  there is no violence in my hands

and my prayer is pure.

Job 19:7

Job’s Abandonment and Affliction

19:7 “If ²  I cry out, ³  ‘Violence!’ ⁴ 

I receive no answer; ⁵ 

I cry for help,

but there is no justice.

[16:17]  ¹ tn For the use of the preposition עַל (’al) to introduce concessive clauses, see GKC 499 §160.c.

[19:7]  ² tn The particle is used here as in 9:11 (see GKC 497 §159.w).

[19:7]  ³ tc The LXX has “I laugh at reproach.”

[19:7]  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.

[19:7]  ⁵ tn The Niphal is simply “I am not answered.” See Prov 21:13b.