Job 35:13

Job 35:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)But it is wrong to say God doesn’t listen, to say the Almighty isn’t concerned.

Context of Job 35:13

11who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?’ 12He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked. Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it. 14How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him, 15and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.

Job 35:13 word by word

אַךְ־שָׁ֭וְא לֹא־יִשְׁמַ֥ע׀ אֵ֑ל וְ֝שַׁדַּ֗י לֹ֣א יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Surely Godאֵל'êl · GodH410
• will not hearשָׁמַעshâma‛ · to hear: hearH8085
• vanityשָׁוְאshâv' shav · vanity: vainH7723
• neither will the Almightyשַׁדַּיshadday · AlmightyH7706
• regardשׁוּרshûr · to seeH7789

Cross-references for Job 35:13

• Job 22:22Accept instruction from his mouth and lay up his words in your heart.
• Job 27:8For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life?
• Proverbs 15:8The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.
• Proverbs 28:9If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction, even their prayers are detestable.
• Ecclesiastes 5:1Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
• Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood!
• Jeremiah 11:11Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.
• Hosea 7:14They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They slash themselves, appealing to their gods for grain and new wine, but they turn away from me.
• Hosea 8:2Israel cries out to me, ‘Our God, we acknowledge you!’
• Matthew 6:7And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
• Matthew 20:21“What is it you want?” he asked. She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.”
• James 4:3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
• Job 30:20“I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.
• Psalms 102:17He will respond to the prayer of the destitute; he will not despise their plea.
• Amos 5:22Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.

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

Topics related to Job 35:13

• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• God
• Advantage
• Elihu
• Heaven

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