English Standard Version
Job 27:9
9Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?
Job 27:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
- New International Version (NIV)Does God listen to their cry when distress comes upon them?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Will God hear his cry When trouble comes upon him?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Will God listen to their cry when trouble comes upon them?
Context of Job 27:9
7"Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous. 8For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life? Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him? 10Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times? 11I will teach you concerning the hand of God; what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
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הַֽ֭צַעֲקָתוֹ יִשְׁמַ֥ע׀ אֵ֑ל כִּֽי־תָב֖וֹא עָלָ֣יו צָרָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 27:9
- Job 35:12There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
- Psalms 18:41They cried for help, but there was none to save; they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.
- Psalms 66:18If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
- Psalms 109:7When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin!
- Proverbs 1:28Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
- Proverbs 28:9If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
- Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
- Jeremiah 11:11Therefore, thus says the Lord, Behold, I am bringing disaster upon them that they cannot escape. Though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.
- Jeremiah 14:12Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence."
- Ezekiel 8:18Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them."
- Micah 3:4Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.
- Zechariah 7:13"As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear," says the Lord of hosts,
- John 9:31We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.
- James 4:3You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
- Hosea 7:14They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves; they rebel against me.
- Luke 13:25When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us,' then he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.'
Commentaries on Job 27:9
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? - Coverdale has rendered this Job 27:8-9 so as to make excellent sense, though not strictly in accordance with the original. “What hope hath the hypocrite though he have great good, and though God give him riches after his heart‘s desire? Doth God hear him the sooner, when he crieth unto him in his necessity?” The object of the verse is to show the miserable condition of a wicked man or a hypocrite. This…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-10Verses 7-10 Job looked upon the condition of a hypocrite and a wicked man, to be most miserable. If they gained through life by their profession, and kept up their presumptuous hope till death, what would that avail when God required their souls? The more comfort we find in our religion, the more closely we shall cleave to it. Those who have no delight in God, are easily drawn away by the pleasures, and easily overcome by the crosses of this life. (Job…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-23Some interpreters think this is a new speech by Zophar. Without it, Zophar has no speech in this cycle.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. (Psa 66:18).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 27
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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