Job 35:9-16

9 “People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.

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.

13 Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.

14 How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him,

15 and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.^[c]

16 So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words.”

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Job 35:9-16 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

Cross References 19

1. Exodus 2:23
2. S Job 20:19
3. S Job 5:15; S Job 12:19
4. S Job 4:17; Job 27:10; Isaiah 51:13
5. S Job 8:21
6. Psalms 42:8; Psalms 77:6; Psalms 119:62; Psalms 149:5; Acts 16:25
7. S Job 21:22; Luke 12:24; Psalms 94:12
8. Job 12:7
9. S 1 Samuel 8:18; Proverbs 1:28
10. S Job 15:25
11. Psalms 66:18
12. S Deuteronomy 1:45; S 1 Samuel 8:18; S Job 15:31; S Proverbs 15:8; Job 27:9; Proverbs 15:29; Isaiah 1:15; Jeremiah 11:11
13. S Job 9:11
14. Psalms 37:6
15. Job 31:35
16. S Job 9:24
17. S Job 18:5; Psalms 10:11; Hosea 7:2; Amos 8:7
18. Titus 1:10
19. S Job 34:35,37; 1 Corinthians 4:20; Jude 1:10

Footnotes 3

[a]. Or "night," / 11"who teaches us by"
[b]. Or "us wise by"
[c]. Symmachus, Theodotion and Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

Job 35:9-16

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Job 35:9-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 35

Cross References 19

Footnotes 3