Job 35:9

People cry out because of terrible persecution; they call for someone to save them from their oppressors.

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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

8No—your sins only affect people like yourself, and whatever good you do only affects them too.

10But no one asks, ‘Where is the God my maker, the one who gives songs in the night,

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Cross References

Exodus 3:7“I'm completely aware of the misery of my people in Egypt,” the Lord told him. “I have heard them crying out because of their taskmasters. I know how much they're suffering.

Nehemiah 5:1Around this time some people and their wives started a tremendous argument with the other Jews.

Job 24:12In the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry for help, but God ignores their prayers.

Job 40:9Are you as powerful as I am? Does your voice thunder like mine?

Psalms 12:5“Because of the violence the helpless have suffered, and because of the groans of the poor, I will rise up to defend them,” says the Lord. “I will give them the protection they have been longing for.”

Psalms 55:2Please listen, and give me an answer. I'm terribly troubled by my problems! I'm frantic!

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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