Job 35:10-16

10 But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,

11 Who teaches us more than the animals of the eretz, And makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

12 There they cry, but none gives answer, Because of the pride of evil men.

13 Surely God will not hear an empty cry, Neither will Shaddai regard it.

14 How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

15 But now, because he has not visited in his anger, Neither does he greatly regard arrogance.

16 Therefore Iyov opens his mouth with empty talk, And he multiplies words without knowledge."

Job 35:10-16 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.