the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Job 35:13
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But it is wrong to say God doesn't listen, to say the Almighty isn't concerned.
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Surely God will not hear an empty [cry], Neither will the Almighty regard it.
God does not listen to their useless begging; the Almighty pays no attention to them.
Surely it is an empty cry—God does not hear it; the Almighty does not take notice of it.
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Surely God will not hear an empty cry, Neither will the Almighty regard it.
"Surely God will not listen to an empty cry [which lacks trust], Nor will the Almighty regard it.
Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
For God schal not here with out cause, and Almyyti God schal biholde the causis of ech man.
Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
If God All-Powerful refuses to answer their empty prayers,
Surely God will not hear an empty cry, Neither will the Almighty regard it.
But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;
For God will not listen to empty cries; Shaddai pays no attention to them.
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
God will not listen to their worthless begging. God All-Powerful will not pay attention to them.
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Surely God wil not heare vanitie, neither wil the Almightie regard it.
For sure God will not listen to an empty cry. The All-powerful will not do anything about it.
Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
Surely God will not heare vanitie, neyther will the Almightie regard it.
Because God does not hear the empty pride of evildoers, nor does he praise it.
It is useless for them to cry out; Almighty God does not see or hear them.
Howbeit, vanity, will GOD not hear, Yea, the Almighty, will not regard it.
God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into the causes of every one.
Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
For God wyll not heare vanitie, neither wyll the almightie regarde it.
For the Lord desires not to look on error, for he is the Almighty One.
Indeed, God does not listen to empty cries,and the Almighty does not take note of it—
Surely God will not hear an empty cry, Neither will Shaddai regard it.
"Surely God does not hear an empty plea, and Shaddai does not regard it.
Surely, God will not hear vanity, nor will the Almighty look upon it.
Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.
But yf a man call vpon God, doth not he heare him? Doth not the Almightie accepte his crie?
"God certainly will not listen to an empty cry, Nor will the Almighty regard it.
Surely God will not listen to empty talk, Nor will the Almighty regard it.
"Surely God will not listen to an empty cry, Nor will the Almighty regard it.
Surely God will not listen to an empty cry,Nor will the Almighty perceive it.
Contextual Overview
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
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.
For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of 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 ש×× "falsitatem", Beza; "mendacium", Pagninus, Montanus. a "Quod temerarium est", Cocceius. b ×× ×ש××¨× × "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 âtruthâ 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 âassumesâ as being unquestionable. Yet the very point indispensable to make out his case was, that âin factâ 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.
