Tree of Life Version
Job 35:13
13Indeed God does not hear an empty cry; Shaddai pays no attention to it.
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
11who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, who makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’ 12There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of the wicked. Indeed God does not hear an empty cry; Shaddai pays no attention to it. 14How much less when you say that you do not perceive Him that the case is before Him and you must wait for Him. 15And further, that His anger does not punish and that He does not know transgression?
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 22:22Accept instruction from His mouth and store up His words in your heart.
- Job 27:8For what hope has the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes his soul?
- Proverbs 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Adonai, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.
- Proverbs 28:9One who turns his ear from hearing Torah —even his prayer is an abomination.
- Ecclesiastes 5:1Do not be quick with your mouth nor hasty in your heart to utter a word in God’s presence. For God is in heaven, and you are on the earth— therefore, let your words be few.
- Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. When you multiply prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood!”
- Jeremiah 11:11Therefore thus says Adonai. “I will soon bring a disaster on them that they will not be able to escape. They will cry out to Me, yet I will not listen to them.
- Hosea 7:14Nor did they not cry to Me in their heart when they were wailing on their beds. For the sake of grain and new wine they slash themselves— they keep turning away from Me.
- Hosea 8:2Will they cry out to Me, ‘My God, we—Israel—knew You’?
- Matthew 6:7And when you are praying, do not babble on and on like the pagans; for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
- Matthew 20:21“What do you want?” He said to her. She said to Him, “Declare that these two sons of mine might sit, one on Your right and one on Your left, in Your kingdom.”
- James 4:3You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives so you may spend it on your passions.
- Job 30:20“I cry out to You, but You do not answer me; I stand up, but You only look at me.
- Psalms 102:17For Adonai has rebuilt Zion. He has appeared in His glory.
- Amos 5:22Even if you offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I look at peace offerings of your fattened 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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