Job 35:9

Because of the multitude of false accusers, they will cry out; and they will lament because of the strong arm of the tyrants.

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In The King James Version

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

In Context

8Your impiety may hurt a man who is like you, though your justice may help the son of the man.

10Yet he has not said: “Where is God, who made me, who has given songs in the night,

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Cross References

Exodus 3:7And the Lord said to him: “I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their outcry because of the harshness of those who are over the works.

Nehemiah 5:1And there occurred a great outcry of the people and their wives against their brothers, the Jews.

Job 24:12In the cities, they caused the men to groan and the spirit of the wounded to cry out, and so God does not allow this to go unpunished.

Job 40:9Then I will confess that your right hand is able to save you.

Psalms 12:5lest at any time my enemy may say, “I have prevailed against him.” Those who trouble me will exult, if I have been disturbed.

Psalms 55:2Have mercy on me, O God, because man has trampled over me. All day long, he has afflicted me by fighting against me.

Matthew Henry on Job 35:2-9

The Address of Elihu. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Elihu spake moreover, and said, 2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's? 3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? 4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. 5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou. 6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou… Read the whole commentary →

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