Job 35:12

12 There they shall cry, but he shall give no answer because of the pride of those that are evil.

Job 35:12 Meaning and Commentary

Job 35:12

There they cry
As brutes do, and as in, ( Job 35:9 ) ; by reason of their oppressions, but not under a due sense of the hand of God upon them, nor of his being their only helper, and saviour, and deliverer;

but none giveth answer;
to them, either God or men, and they lie groaning and howling under their oppression;

because of the pride of evil men;
this is either to be connected with "they cry", and then the sense is, that they cry by reason of the oppressions of wicked men, who, through the pride of their hearts, and to show their superior power and authority, persecute and distress them, ( Psalms 10:2 ) . And it is because of this they cry out, being distressed by them, and not through any sense of sin they have committed, as the reason of God's suffering them to be thus oppressed: or "with none give answer"; God gives them no answer to their cry, because pride is not withdrawn from them, which is one end he has in afflicting men; because they are not humbled under the mighty hand of God, and are not brought to a sense of sin and humiliation for it, and acknowledgment of it. And another reason follows:

Job 35:12 In-Context

10 But no one shall say, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

12 There they shall cry, but he shall give no answer because of the pride of those that are evil.

13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty look upon it.

14 For much that thou dost say, he will not look upon it, submit to judgment before him, and trust thou in him.