Job 35:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַךְ־שָׁ֭וְא לֹא־יִשְׁמַ֥ע ׀ אֵ֑ל וְ֝שַׁדַּ֗י לֹ֣א יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃

Transliteration

ʾak-šāwʾ lōʾ-yišmaʿ ʾēl wə-šadday lōʾ yəšûrennāh

Grammar Details

• *ʾak-šāwʾ*: adverb + masculine singular noun - surely emptiness/vanity
• *lōʾ-yišmaʿ*: negative particle + imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - does not hear
• *ʾēl*: masculine singular noun - God
• *wə-šadday*: conjunction + masculine singular noun - and the Almighty
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yəšûrennāh*: imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + 3rd feminine singular suffix - he does not regard it

Word Meanings

• *ʾak*: surely/only/indeed
• *šāwʾ*: emptiness/vanity/falsehood
• *yišmaʿ*: to hear/listen/pay attention to
• *ʾēl*: God/deity
• *šadday*: Almighty/All-powerful (divine name)
• *yəšûrennāh*: to regard/look at/pay attention to it

Referenced Verses

• Prov 15:29 : 29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
• Isa 1:15 : 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.
• Jer 11:11 : 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.
• Jas 4:3 : 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
• Prov 28:9 : 9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
• Eccl 5:1-3 : 1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. 2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. 3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
• Hos 7:14 : 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
• Hos 8:2-3 : 2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. 3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
• Amos 5:22 : 22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
• Matt 6:7 : 7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
• Matt 20:21-22 : 21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom. 22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
• Job 22:22-27 : 22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. 23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. 24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. 25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. 26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. 27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
• Job 27:8-9 : 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?
• Job 30:20 : 20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
• Ps 102:17 : 17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
• Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.