Job 30:20
Good News Translation
I call to you, O God, but you never answer; and when I pray, you pay no attention.

New Revised Standard Version
I cry to you and you do not answer me; I stand, and you merely look at me.

Contemporary English Version
I beg God for help, but there is no answer; and when I stand up, he simply stares.

New American Bible
I cry to you, but you do not answer me; I stand, but you take no notice.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.

I cry

Job 19:7 Behold I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.

Job 27:9 Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?

Psalm 22:2 O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.

Psalm 80:4,5 O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant? . . .

Lamentations 3:8,44 Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer. . . .

Matthew 15:23 Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying: Send her away, for she crieth after us:

Context
Job's Prosperity Becomes Calamity
19I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes. 20I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.21Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.…
Cross References
Job 19:7
Behold I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.

Job 31:35
Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,

Lamentations 3:8
Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.

Job 30:19
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