Job 35:11-16

11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'

12 There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evildoers.

13 Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

14 How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!

15 And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression,

16 Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge."

Job 35:11-16 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.

Footnotes

• [a]. Traditional rendering of Heb [Shaddai]
• [b]. Theodotion Symmachus Compare Vg: Meaning of Heb uncertain