Job 35:10-12

10 But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
11 who teaches us more than he teaches[a] the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than[b] the birds in the sky?’
12 He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.

Job 35:10-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 35

Is this chapter Elihu goes on to charge Job with other unbecoming speeches, which he undertakes to refute; as that he had represented his cause more just than God's, and religion and righteousness as things unprofitable to men, only to God; to which Elihu takes upon him to make answer, Job 35:1-8; and that the cries of the oppressed were not heard by the Lord, so as to give occasion to songs of praise and thankfulness, to which he replies, Job 35:9-13; and that Job had expressed diffidence and despair of ever seeing and enjoying the favour of God, which he endeavours to remove, Job 35:14-16.

Cross References 8

  • 1. S Job 4:17; Job 27:10; Isaiah 51:13
  • 2. S Job 8:21
  • 3. Psalms 42:8; Psalms 77:6; Psalms 119:62; Psalms 149:5; Acts 16:25
  • 4. S Job 21:22; Luke 12:24; Psalms 94:12
  • 5. Job 12:7
  • 6. S 1 Samuel 8:18; Proverbs 1:28
  • 7. S Job 15:25
  • 8. Psalms 66:18

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Or "night," / 11"who teaches us by"
  • [b]. Or "us wise by"
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