John Trapp on Job 19:7

Verſe 7. Behold I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard] Nothing is more natural and uſual then for men in miſery to cry out for help. Jobs great grief was, that neither God nor man would regard his moanes or deliver him out of the Net. God did not reſcue him, men did not right him or relieve him. His outcry ſeemeth to be the ſame in effect with that of Habakkuk the Prophet, chap. 1.2, 3. O Lord, how long ſhal I cry and then wilt not hear? even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not ſave? Why doſt thou ſhew not iniquity, and cauſe we to behold grievance? for ſpoiling and violence are before me, and there are that raiſe up ſtrife and contention. Wherefore lookeſt thou upon them that deal treacherouſly, &c. verſe 13. Thus Job, but with out an anſwer: as the Lion letteth his Whelps four themſelves hourſe for hunger, yea, till they are almoſt dead, ere he ſupplieth them. Sure it is, that God alwayes heareth his Jobs, though he doth not alwayes anſwer in our time, and in our way. Yea it is an hearing and an anſwer of prayer (ſaith one) that we can pray, though unheard and unanſwered.

I cry aloud] Heb. I ſet up my Note; cum gemitu & ululatu, with groaning and howling Men never pray ſo earneſtly, as in greateſt afflictions, Heb. 5.7. Hoſ. 12.4 then their prayers, like ſtrong ſtreams in narrow ſtreights, bear down all that ſtands before them.