7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
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Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! …
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. …
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Job’s friends had passed a very severe censure upon him as a wicked man because he was so grievously afflicted; now here he tells them how ill he took it to be so censured. Bildad had twice begun with a How long ( Job 8:2 ; 18:2 ), and therefore Job, being now to answer him particularly, begins with a How long too, Job 19:2. What is not liked is commonly thought long; but Job had more reason to th…
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