Tree of Life Version
Job 35:9
9“Because of a multitude of oppressions, they cry out; they cry for help because of the power of the mighty.
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, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand? 8Your wickedness is for a man like yourself, and your righteousness for a son of man. “Because of a multitude of oppressions, they cry out; they cry for help because of the power of the mighty. 10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, 11who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, who makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
Read all of Job 35Job 35:9 word by word
מֵ֭רֹב עֲשׁוּקִ֣ים יַזְעִ֑יקוּ יְשַׁוְּע֖וּ מִזְּר֣וֹעַ רַבִּֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 35:9
- Job 24:12From the city men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out; yet God charges no one with folly.
- Job 34:28They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, so that He hears the cry of the afflicted.
- Exodus 2:23Now it came about over the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. Bnei-Yisrael groaned because of their slavery. They cried out and their cry from slavery went up to God.
- Exodus 3:7Then Adonai said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their slave masters, for I know their pains.
- Nehemiah 5:1Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives to their fellow Jews.
- Psalms 12:5They say: “With our tongue we’ll prevail. We own our lips—who can master us?”
- Psalms 43:2For You are my God, my stronghold. Why have You spurned me? Why do I go about gloomy because of the oppression of the enemy?
- Psalms 55:2Give ear, O God, to my prayer and do not ignore my plea for help.
- Psalms 56:1For the music director: “A Silent Dove Far Away,” a Michtam of David, when the Philistines had seized him in Gath.
- Luke 18:3And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my opponent.’
- Job 40:9Do you have an arm like God’s and can you thunder with a voice like His?
- Psalms 10:15Break the arm of the wicked, evil one! Call him to account for his wickedness— until no more is found.
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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