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Job 35:5-15

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5 1Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
6 If you have sinned, 2what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
7 3If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
8 Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness 4a son of man.
9 “Because of the multitude of 5oppressions people 6cry out; they call for help because of the arm of 7the mighty. [a]
10 But none says, ‘Where is God my 8Maker, who gives 9songs in the night,
11 who teaches us 10more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens? ’
12 There they 11cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
14 How much less when you say that you 12do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are 13waiting for him!
15 And now, because 14his anger does not punish, and he does not take much note of transgression, [b]
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Job 35:5-15 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Cross References 14

  • 1. 35:5 [ch. 22:12]
  • 2. 35:6 Prov. 8:36; Jer. 7:19
  • 3. 35:7 ch. 22:2, 3; Prov. 9:12; Luke 17:10; [ch. 41:11; Rom. 11:35]
  • 4. 35:8 ch. 25:6
  • 5. 35:9 Amos 3:9
  • 6. 35:9 Ex. 2:23; [ch. 34:28]
  • 7. 35:9 [ch. 22:8]
  • 8. 35:10 ch. 4:17; Deut. 32:6
  • 9. 35:10 Ps. 42:8; 77:6; 149:5; [Acts 16:25]
  • 10. 35:11 ch. 36:22; Ps. 94:12; Isa. 28:26
  • 11. 35:12 See ch. 27:9
  • 12. 35:14 ch. 9:11; 23:8, 9
  • 13. 35:14 [ch. 13:15]
  • 14. 35:15 Num. 16:29; Ps. 89:32

Footnotes 2

  • [a] 35:9 Or 'the many'
  • [b] 35:15 Theodotion, Symmachus (compare Vulgate); the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®) © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2025

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