Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 19:7

"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice." — Job 19:7 (ASV)

Behold I cry out of wrong. —The description he now gives of himself as persecuted and forsaken by God is necessary to enhance the value of the confession he is about to make. Severely has God dealt with him, but that severity of dealing has only drawn him nearer to God and made him trust the more. He groups together a rich variety of figures to express his desolate condition. He is suffering assault, and can get no protection or redress; he is imprisoned on every side, his hope is torn up like the tree of which he had before spoken (Job 14:7).