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Job 35:13

"Surely God will not listen to an empty cry [which lacks trust], Nor will the Almighty regard it.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - God;   Hearing;   Vanity;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prayer, Answers to;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Vanity;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Indeed, God does not listen to empty cries,and the Almighty does not take note of it—
Hebrew Names Version
Surely God will not hear an empty cry, Neither will Shaddai regard it.
King James Version
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
English Standard Version
Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
New Century Version
God does not listen to their useless begging; the Almighty pays no attention to them.
New English Translation
Surely it is an empty cry—God does not hear it; the Almighty does not take notice of it.
New American Standard Bible
"God certainly will not listen to an empty cry, Nor will the Almighty regard it.
World English Bible
Surely God will not hear an empty cry, Neither will the Almighty regard it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Surely God will not heare vanitie, neyther will the Almightie regard it.
Legacy Standard Bible
Surely God will not listen to an empty cry,Nor will the Almighty perceive it.
Berean Standard Bible
Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
Contemporary English Version
If God All-Powerful refuses to answer their empty prayers,
Complete Jewish Bible
For God will not listen to empty cries; Shaddai pays no attention to them.
Darby Translation
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Easy-to-Read Version
God will not listen to their worthless begging. God All-Powerful will not pay attention to them.
George Lamsa Translation
Because God does not hear the empty pride of evildoers, nor does he praise it.
Good News Translation
It is useless for them to cry out; Almighty God does not see or hear them.
Lexham English Bible
"Surely God does not hear an empty plea, and Shaddai does not regard it.
Literal Translation
Surely, God will not hear vanity, nor will the Almighty look upon it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf a man call vpon God, doth not he heare him? Doth not the Almightie accepte his crie?
American Standard Version
Surely God will not hear an empty cry, Neither will the Almighty regard it.
Bible in Basic English
But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
King James Version (1611)
Surely God wil not heare vanitie, neither wil the Almightie regard it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For God wyll not heare vanitie, neither wyll the almightie regarde it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the Lord desires not to look on error, for he is the Almighty One.
English Revised Version
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For God schal not here with out cause, and Almyyti God schal biholde the causis of ech man.
Update Bible Version
Surely God will not hear an empty [cry], Neither will the Almighty regard it.
Webster's Bible Translation
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
New King James Version
Surely God will not listen to empty talk, Nor will the Almighty regard it.
New Living Translation
But it is wrong to say God doesn't listen, to say the Almighty isn't concerned.
New Life Bible
For sure God will not listen to an empty cry. The All-powerful will not do anything about it.
New Revised Standard
Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Howbeit, vanity, will GOD not hear, Yea, the Almighty, will not regard it.
Douay-Rheims Bible
God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into the causes of every one.
Revised Standard Version
Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
Young's Literal Translation
Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Surely God will not listen to an empty cry, Nor will the Almighty regard it.

Contextual Overview

9"Because of the multitudes of oppressions the people cry out; They cry for help because of the [violent] arm of the mighty. 10"But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs [of rejoicing] in the night, 11Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?' 12"The people cry out, but He does not answer Because of the pride of evil men. 13"Surely God will not listen to an empty cry [which lacks trust], Nor will the Almighty regard it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God: Job 22:22-27, Job 27:8, Job 27:9, Proverbs 15:8, Proverbs 15:29, Proverbs 28:9, Ecclesiastes 5:1-3, Isaiah 1:15, Jeremiah 11:11, Hosea 7:14, Hosea 8:2, Hosea 8:3, Matthew 6:7, Matthew 20:21, Matthew 20:22, James 4:3

regard: Job 30:20, Psalms 102:17, Amos 5:22

Reciprocal: Job 8:3 - Almighty Psalms 18:41 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 11:5
Now the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
Genesis 17:22
And God finished speaking with him and went up from Abraham.
Genesis 18:33
As soon as He had finished speaking with Abraham the LORD departed, and Abraham returned to his own place.
Judges 6:21
Then the Angel of the LORD put out the end of the staff that was in His hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread; and fire flared up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the Angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.
Judges 13:20
For when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the Angel of the LORD ascended in the altar flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this they fell on their faces to the ground.
Luke 24:31
Then their eyes were [suddenly] opened [by God] and they [clearly] recognized Him; and He vanished from their sight.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Surely God will not hear vanity,.... Or "a lie" z, than which nothing is more an abomination to him; if men come to him with a lie in their mouths, they cannot expect to be heard by him; he is only nigh to those who call upon him in truth: or that which is "rash" a; which is rashly uttered, and in a passionate wrathful manner, savouring of a revengeful spirit, too often the case of those that cry under oppression; see Ecclesiastes 5:2; or vain and empty prayers, a speech of vanity, as Aben Ezra; which as to the matter of them are about vain and empty things; only for outward mercies, worldly goods; and not for spiritual mercies, or such things as are according to the will of God; but what are pleasing to the flesh, and sought for to consume on the lusts of it, and therefore such prayers are not heard, Psalms 4:6; and as to the manner of them, they are not put up in the name of Christ, nor under the influence of the spirit of Christ, nor in the exercise of any grace, nor with reverence of God, nor with sincerity of soul, not in faith, nor with fervency: or "vanity" is put for vain men, as sin for sinners; such as are proud men, and are vainly puffed up in their fleshly mind. God hears humble penitent sinners, who find mercy with him; and humble saints, to whom he gives more grace; but not proud Pharisees, or men not humbled by afflictions; see Luke 18:11; nor light and empty persons, who are without God and Christ, destitute of the spirit, devoid of all grace, and full of all unrighteousness; unstable ones, who are vanity itself, and lighter than vanity, tossed to and fro like a wave of the sea, and double minded, James 1:6; nor men of vain conversations, that walk in the vanity of their minds, whose words are vain, and especially such as take the name of God in vain; and all whose actions are vain, or such that live a vain and sinful course of life; God hears not sinners, John 9:31;

neither will the Almighty regard it; vanity, vain prayers and vain persons; he regards the prayer of the destitute, the lowly, and the humble, but not the prayer of such as before described; he cannot "look" at, it b, nor at them: he looks to the poor and contrite, and desires to see their countenance and hear their voice in prayer; but he is of purer eyes thou to look on vain persons and their vain prayers; and a greater contempt cannot be shown to petitioners and their petitions than when those to whom they apply will not so much as look at them, but turn both a deaf ear to them, and their eyes away from them.

z שוא "falsitatem", Beza; "mendacium", Pagninus, Montanus. a "Quod temerarium est", Cocceius. b לא ישורנה "non intuatur illud", Pagninus, Montanus; "non videt illud", Cocceius; so Michaelis and Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Surely 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 it for granted that all prayers offered by unrelieved sufferers are thus insincere and hollow. This was needfull in his view to account for the fact under consideration, and this he “assumes” as being unquestionable. Yet the very point indispensable to make out his case was, that “in fact” the prayers offered by such persons were insincere.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 35:13. Surely God will not hear vanity — He will not attend to such vain cries; they cry from their oppressions, but they cry not to God.


 
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