Job 35:10-11

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?’

Job 35:10-11 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.

Cross References

• 1. S Job 4:17; Job 27:10; Isaiah 51:13
• 2. S Job 8:21
• 3. Psalms 42:8; Psalms 77:6; Psalms 119:62; Psalms 149:5; Acts 16:25
• 4. S Job 21:22; Luke 12:24; Psalms 94:12
• 5. Job 12:7

Footnotes

• [a] Or "night," / 11"who teaches us by"
• [b] Or "us wise by"