Ayub 19:7

Job’s Abandonment and Affliction

19:7 “If ¹  I cry out, ²  ‘Violence!’ ³ 

I receive no answer; ⁴ 

I cry for help,

but there is no justice.

Ayub 33:12

33:12 Now in this, you are not right – I answer you, ⁵ 

for God is greater than a human being. ⁶ 

[19:7]  ¹ tn The particle is used here as in 9:11 (see GKC 497 §159.w).

[19:7]  ² tc The LXX has “I laugh at reproach.”

[19:7]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn The Niphal is simply “I am not answered.” See Prov 21:13b.

[33:12]  ⁵ tn The meaning of this verb is “this is my answer to you.”

[33:12]  ⁶ tc The LXX has “he that is above men is eternal.” Elihu is saying that God is far above Job’s petty problems.