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20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

Job 30:20

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

  • Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

  • O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? …

  • O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

  • But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-31)

In this second part of Job’s complaint, which is very bitter, and has a great many sorrowful accents in it, we may observe a great deal that he complains of and some little that he comforts himself with. I. Here is much that he complains of. 1. In general, it was a day of great affliction and sorrow. (1.) Affliction seized him, and surprised him. It seized him (Job 30:16): The days of affliction h…

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