Job 35:9

Webster's Bible (1833)

"By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 2:23 : 23 It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
  • Job 34:28 : 28 So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, He heard the cry of the afflicted.
  • Job 40:9 : 9 Or have you an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
  • Ps 10:15 : 15 Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."
  • Ps 43:2 : 2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
  • Ps 55:2-3 : 2 Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan, 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
  • Ps 56:1-2 : 1 > Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me. 2 My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, For they are many who fight proudly against me.
  • Luke 18:3-7 : 3 A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!' 4 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'" 6 The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says. 7 Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
  • Exod 3:9 : 9 Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
  • Neh 5:1-5 : 1 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews. 2 For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live. 3 Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth. 4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [on] our fields and our vineyards. 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children: and, behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already]: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
  • Job 12:19 : 19 He leads priests away stripped, And overthrows the mighty.
  • Job 24:12 : 12 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, Yet God doesn't regard the folly.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 12 There they cry, but none gives answer, Because of the pride of evil men.

  • 28 So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, He heard the cry of the afflicted.

  • Ps 55:2-3
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    2 Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

    3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

  • 7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

  • 39 Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

  • 15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, And opens their ear in oppression.

  • 10 But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,

  • 5 "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."

  • 8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

  • 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

  • 12 For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.

  • 17 The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles.

  • 9 Will God hear his cry, When trouble comes on him?

  • 15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

  • 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

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    9 Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; A high tower in times of trouble.

  • 2 to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

  • 12 For I know how many your offenses, And how great are your sins-- You who afflict the just, Who take a bribe, And who turn aside the needy in the courts.

  • 1 Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

  • 24 Why do you hide your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?

  • 12 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

  • 41 They cried, but there was none to save; Even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.

  • 9 You have sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • 3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked?

  • 28 They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge.

  • 12 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, Yet God doesn't regard the folly.

  • 8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; And your righteousness may profit a son of man.

  • 15 From the wicked, their light is withheld, The high arm is broken.

  • 23 If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

  • 21 You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

  • Lam 1:21-22
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    21 They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall be like me.

    22 Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

  • 24 Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness; Don't let them gloat over me.

  • 8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

  • 18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.

  • 4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, And cause the poor of the land to fail,

  • 4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

  • 13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, He will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

  • 9 Who brings sudden destruction on the strong, So that destruction comes on the fortress.

  • 25 Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?

  • 30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

  • 5 The people will be oppressed, Everyone by another, And everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, And the base against the honorable.

  • Hab 1:2-3
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    2 Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save?

    3 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

  • 8 If they are bound in fetters, And are taken in the cords of afflictions,

  • 10 All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, Who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him, Yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?"

  • 6 Listen to my cry, For I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.

  • 4 Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."

  • 2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?