Job 35:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.

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  • Prov 1:28 : 28 Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
  • Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us. 4 For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.
  • John 9:31 : 31 We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.
  • Isa 14:14-17 : 14 I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High. 15 But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts. 16 Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms? 17 Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.
  • Ps 18:41 : 41 They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.
  • Ps 73:6-8 : 6 For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe. 7 Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire. 8 Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

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  • 13 But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;

  • 41 They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.

  • Job 35:9-11
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    77%

    9 Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.

    10 But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

    11 Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?

  • Job 34:27-29
    3 verses
    74%

    27 Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,

    28 So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.

    29 ...

  • 4 Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.

  • 28 Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:

  • 42 They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.

  • 7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

  • 13 He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.

  • 9 Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?

  • 1 Give now a cry for help; is there anyone who will give you an answer? and to which of the holy ones will you make your prayer?

  • 12 From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

  • 11 So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.

  • 19 God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God.

  • 28 And I saw that there was no man, even no wise man among them, who might give an answer to my questions.

  • 12 I was taking note; and truly not one of you was able to make clear Job's error, or to give an answer to his words.

  • 20 You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.

  • Job 32:14-16
    3 verses
    70%

    14 I will not put forward words like these, or make use of your sayings in answer to him.

    15 Fear has overcome them, they have no more answers to give; they have come to an end of words.

    16 And am I to go on waiting while they have nothing to say? while they keep quiet and give no more answers?

  • 11 And they say, How will the Lord see this? is there knowledge in the Most High?

  • Job 33:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12 Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.

    13 Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

  • 17 They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.

  • 24 Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

  • 17 The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles.

  • 15 Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.

  • 22 Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.

  • 15 Give ear and let your ears be open; be not lifted up: for these are the words of the Lord.

  • 4 No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

  • 12 The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and all her chiefs will have come to an end.

  • 15 What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

  • 7 But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you;

  • 7 And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.

  • 7 And the seers will be shamed, and the readers of the future will be at a loss, all of them covering their lips; for there is no answer from God.

  • 11 For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.

  • 7 Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.

  • 4 It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

  • 30 They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.

  • 2 Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath. Maschil. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

  • 13 God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.

  • 17 For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, I will send on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem all the evil which I said I would do to them: because I sent my words to them, but they did not give ear; crying out to them, but they gave no answer.

  • 4 Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?

  • 12 But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?