Job 35:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

Job 35:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 15:29
The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Isaiah 1:15
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
James 4:3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Jeremiah 11:11
Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Topics

Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-13)

Elihu here returns an answer to another word that Job had said, which, he thought, reflected much upon the justice and goodness of God, and therefore ought not to pass without a remark. Observe, I. What it was that Job complained of; it was this, That God did not regard the cries of the oppressed against their oppressors (Job 35:9): “ By reason of the multitude of oppressions, the many hardships w…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

10-13. But the reason is that the innocent sufferers often do not humbly seek God for succor; so to their “pride” is to be laid the blame of their ruin; also because (Job 35:13-16) they, as Job, instead of waiting God’s time in pious trust, are prone to despair of His justice, when it is not immediately visible (Job 33:19-26). If the sufferer would apply to God with a humbled, penitent spirit, He…