Job 35:4-14

4 Look up to the sky and see; and consider the clouds, how high above thee.

5 If thou hast sinned, what wilt thou do?

6 and if too thou hast transgressed much, what canst thou perform?

7 And suppose thou art righteous, what wilt thou give him? or what shall he receive of thy hand?

8 Thy ungodliness a man who is like to thee; or thy righteousness a son of man.

9 They that are oppressed of a multitude will be ready to cry out; they will call for help because of the arm of many.

10 But none said, Where is God that made me, who appoints the night-watches;

11 who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky?

12 There they shall cry, and none shall hearken, even because of the insolence of wicked men.

13 For the Lord desires not to look on error, for he is the Almighty One.

14 He beholds them that perform lawless deeds, and he will save me: and do thou plead before him, if thou canst praise him, as it is even now.

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.