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Job 35:9
9“People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“People cry out when they are oppressed. They groan beneath the power of the mighty.
Context of Job 35:9
7If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand? 8Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people. “People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful. 10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, 11who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?’
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מֵ֭רֹב עֲשׁוּקִ֣ים יַזְעִ֑יקוּ יְשַׁוְּע֖וּ מִזְּר֣וֹעַ רַבִּֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 35:9
- Job 24:12The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing.
- Job 34:28They caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he heard the cry of the needy.
- Exodus 2:23During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.
- Exodus 3:7The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.
- Nehemiah 5:1Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews.
- Psalms 12:5“Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord. “I will protect them from those who malign them.”
- Psalms 43:2You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?
- Psalms 55:2hear me and answer me. My thoughts trouble me and I am distraught
- Psalms 56:1Be merciful to me, my God, for my enemies are in hot pursuit; all day long they press their attack.
- Luke 18:3And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’
- Job 40:9Do you have an arm like God’s, and can your voice thunder like his?
- Psalms 10:15Break the arm of the wicked man; call the evildoer to account for his wickedness that would not otherwise be found out.
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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