Job 35:12

12 God does not answer evil people when they cry out, because the wicked are proud.

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them to be thus oppressed: or "with none give answer"; God gives them no answer to their cry, because pride is not withdrawn from them, which is one end he has in afflicting men; because they are not humbled under the mighty hand of God, and are not brought to a sense of sin and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 asks, 'Where is God, my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

11 who makes us smarter than the animals of the earth and wiser than the birds of the air?'

12 God does not answer evil people when they cry out, because the wicked are proud.

13 God does not listen to their useless begging; the Almighty pays no attention to them.

14 He will listen to you even less when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him, that you must wait for him,