Job 35:4-14

4 I am going to answer you and your friends too.

5 Look at the sky! See how high the clouds are!

6 If you sin, that does no harm to God. ¹ If you do wrong many times, does that affect him?

7 Do you help God by being so righteous? There is nothing God needs from you.

8 Others suffer from your sins, and the good you do helps them.

9 When people are oppressed, they groan; they cry for someone to save them.

10 But they don't turn to God, their Creator, who gives them hope in their darkest hours.

11 They don't turn to God, who makes us wise, wiser than any animal or bird.

12 They cry for help, but God doesn't answer, for they are proud and evil.

13 It is useless for them to cry out; Almighty God does not see or hear them.

14 Job, you say you can't see God; but wait patiently - your case is before him.

Job 35:4-14 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. 35.6-8Job 22.2, 3.