Job 27:9
[Does] God hear his cry, || When distress comes on him?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
In Context
8For what [is] the hope of the profane, || When He cuts off? When God casts off his soul?
10Does he delight himself on the Mighty? Call God at all times?
Cross References
Job 35:12There they cry, and He does not answer, || Because of the pride of evildoers.
Psalms 18:42And I beat them as dust before wind, || I empty them out as mire of the streets.
Psalms 109:7In his being judged, he goes forth wicked, || And his prayer is for sin.
Proverbs 28:9Whoever is turning his ear from hearing the Law, || Even his prayer [is] an abomination.
Jeremiah 11:11Therefore, thus said YHWH: “Behold, I am bringing calamity on them, || That they are not able to go out from, || And they have cried to Me, || And I do not listen to them.
Ezekiel 8:18And I also deal in fury, My eye does not pity, nor do I spare, and they have cried [with] a loud voice in My ears and I do not hear them.”
Matthew Henry on Job 27:8-11
Condition of Hypocrites. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. 8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? 10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God? Job having solemnly protested the satisfaction he had in his integrity, for the further clearing of himself, here expresses the dread he had of being found a hypocrite.… Read the whole commentary →