EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 35:9
9When people suffer, they call aloud for help. They cry for help when powerful people attack them.
Job 35:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
- New International Version (NIV)“People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry out for help because of the arm of the mighty.
Context of Job 35:9
7If you are righteous, that does nothing to help God. He does not receive anything that he needs from you. 8If you do wicked things, it is other people who suffer, not God. And if you do good things, you are only helping other people. When people suffer, they call aloud for help. They cry for help when powerful people attack them. 10But none of them says, “I want God to help me. He made me. He gives me songs to sing in dark nights. 11God teaches us more things than he teaches to the animals. He makes us wiser than the birds.”
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מֵ֭רֹב עֲשׁוּקִ֣ים יַזְעִ֑יקוּ יְשַׁוְּע֖וּ מִזְּר֣וֹעַ רַבִּֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 35:9
- Job 24:12In the cities, people who are dying cry with pain. They call for help, but God does not punish the people who have hurt them.
- Job 34:28They were cruel to poor people, so that God saw what was happening. God heard those poor people when they called to him for help.
- Exodus 2:23After a long time had passed, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites were still slaves of the Egyptians. That made them very sad and they complained loudly. God heard them when they cried for help.
- Exodus 3:7The Lord said, ‘I have certainly seen the troubles of my people in Egypt. I have heard them when they cry for help because of their cruel masters. I know that they are very sad.
- Nehemiah 5:1Some men and their wives were upset, because of the things that some other Jews were doing.
- Psalms 12:5But the Lord says: ‘Now I will do something! I know the cruel things that wicked people do to poor people. When weak people cry with pain, I hear them. So I will make them safe, as they want me to do for them.’
- Psalms 43:2God, you are the safe place where I can hide. Why have you pushed me away? How much longer must I continue to weep, because my enemies do cruel things to me?
- Psalms 55:2Listen carefully and answer me. I am very upset because of all my troubles. They are too many for me.
- Psalms 56:1God, please be kind to me, and help me, because people are fighting me. My enemies are attacking me every day.
- Luke 18:3A woman lived in that same city. Her husband had died. She came to the judge many times with a problem. “Somebody is doing bad things against me. Please keep me safe from that person,” she was saying.
- Job 40:9Do you have the same power to do great things as I have? Can you speak with a voice as loud as thunder? I can!
- Psalms 10:15Take hold of the arm of the wicked, evil man! Break it and take away his strength! Punish him for the bad things that he has done, so that he has to stop.
Commentaries on Job 35:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9By reason of the multitude - Or rather, "From among the multitude" the oppressed clamor, יזעיקו yaziku : they shout, ישועו yeshavveu, because of the mighty. The wicked rich oppress the wicked poor; these cry aloud because of their oppressors; but they have no relief, because they call not upon God.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry - It is not quite easy to see the connection which this verse has with what goes before, or its bearing on the argument of Elihu. It seems however, to refer to the “oppressed in general,” and to the fact, to which Job had himself adverted Job 24:12, that people are borne down by oppression and that God does not interpose to save them. They are suffered to remain in that state of…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. 99. (Ec 4:1.) Elihu states in Job's words (Job 24. 12; 30. 20) the difficulty; the "cries" of "the oppressed" not being heard might lead man to think that wrongs are not punished by Him.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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