EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 35:13
13Their prayers mean nothing. Almighty God does not even listen to them.
Job 35:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
- New International Version (NIV)Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Surely God will not listen to empty talk, Nor will the Almighty regard it.
Context of Job 35:13
11God teaches us more things than he teaches to the animals. He makes us wiser than the birds.” 12Finally, they call for help. But God does not answer them, because they are proud and wicked people. Their prayers mean nothing. Almighty God does not even listen to them. 14So God will certainly not listen to you, Job, when you say that you cannot see him. You say that you have explained your problem to him. You are waiting for him to give you an answer. 15You also say that God does not become angry with people who do wrong things. You say that he does not punish bad people.
Read all of Job 35Job 35:13 word by word
אַךְ־שָׁ֭וְא לֹא־יִשְׁמַ֥ע׀ אֵ֑ל וְ֝שַׁדַּ֗י לֹ֣א יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 35:13
- Job 22:22Listen to his teaching. Remember carefully what he tells you.
- Job 27:8When God chooses to remove wicked people, they cannot hope for any good thing. God will cause them to die.
- Proverbs 15:8When wicked people offer sacrifices to the Lord, he hates it. But he is pleased when good people pray to him.
- Proverbs 28:9If you refuse to listen to God's law, God will refuse to listen to your prayers.
- Ecclesiastes 5:1When you go to God's temple, be careful what you do. Listen carefully when you come near to God. Do not offer sacrifices in the way that foolish people do. They do not even know that they are doing something bad.
- Isaiah 1:15When you lift up your hands to pray to me, I have to look away. Even if you pray very many times to me, I do not listen to you, because your hands are full of blood.
- Jeremiah 11:11So now, I, the Lord, say this: “I will bring great trouble to these people. They will not be able to escape. When they call out to me for help, I will not listen to them.
- Hosea 7:14They do not pray and trust me to help them. Instead, they lie down on their beds and they weep loudly. They cut their bodies to get grain and wine. They turn away from me.
- Hosea 8:2Israel's people call out to me for help. They say, “We know you as our God.”
- Matthew 6:7When you pray, do not say the same words many times. People who do not believe in God do that. They use many words that mean nothing. They think that when they pray like that, their gods will hear them.
- Matthew 20:21‘What do you want me to do?’ Jesus asked her. She said, ‘One day, you will be king. Then I want my two sons to rule with you. One may sit at your right side and the other one at your left side. Please will you do this?’
- James 4:3Even when you do ask God, you do not receive anything. That is because you ask for the wrong reason. You just want to use these things to make yourselves happy.
- Job 30:20I call aloud to you, God, but you do not answer me. When I stand to pray, you only look at me.
- Psalms 102:17He will answer the prayers of poor people who have nothing. He will not refuse to help them.
- Amos 5:22When you bring burnt offerings and grain offerings to me, they do not please me. I will not accept your friendship offerings of fat animals.
Commentaries on Job 35:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13Surely God will not hear vanity - He will not attend to such vain cries; they cry from their oppressions, but they cry not to God.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13Surely God will not hear vanity - A vain, hollow, heartless petition. The object of Elihu here is to account for the reason why sufferers are not relieved - having his eye, doubtless, on the case of Job as one of the most remarkable of the kind. The solution which he here gives of the difficulty is, that it is not consistent for God to hear a prayer where there is no sincerity. Of the “truth” of the remark there can be no doubt, but he seems to have taken…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-13Verses 9-13 Job complained that God did not regard the cries of the oppressed against their oppressors. This he knew not how to reconcile the justice of God and his government. Elihu solves the difficulty. Men do not notice the mercies they enjoy in and under their afflictions, nor are thankful for them, therefore they cannot expect that God should deliver them out of affliction. He gives songs in the night; when our condition is dark and melancholy…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 10-1310-13. But the reason is that the innocent sufferers often do not humbly seek God for succor; so to their "pride" is to be laid the blame of their ruin; also because (Job 35:13-16) they, as Job, instead of waiting God's time in pious trust, are prone to despair of His justice, when it is not immediately visible (Job 33:19-26). If the sufferer would apply to God with a humbled, penitent spirit, He would hear. Where, &c.--(Jr 2:6, 8; Is 51:13). songs--of…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 35
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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