Job 19:7 Cross References - BSB

⁷ Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

³² For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.

³ Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

¹⁵ If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction. ¹⁶ Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me. ¹⁷ You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

¹⁵ Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face. ¹⁶ Moreover, this will be my salvation, for no godless man can appear before Him. ¹⁷ Listen carefully to my words; let my declaration ring in your ears. ¹⁸ Behold, now that I have prepared my case, I know that I will be vindicated. ¹⁹ Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die. ²⁰ Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You: ²¹ Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me. ²² Then call me, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You can reply. ²³ How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.

¹⁷ yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure. ¹⁸ O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest. ¹⁹ Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

²¹ Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

³ If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat. ⁴ I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say. ⁶ Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me. ⁷ Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

²⁰ I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.

³⁵ (Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment. ³⁶ Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown.

⁵ For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

⁸ Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?

² I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.

⁸ For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.

⁸ Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

² How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save? ³ Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.