Job 35:10 But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

English Standard Version
But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

New American Standard Bible
"But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,

King James Bible
But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But no one asks, "Where is God my Maker, who provides us with songs in the night,

International Standard Version
He never asks, 'Where is God, my Creator, who gives me songs in the night,

American Standard Version
But none saith, Where is God my Maker, Who giveth songs in the night,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he hath not said : Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night?

Darby Bible Translation
But none saith, Where is +God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night,

Young's Literal Translation
And none said, 'Where is God my maker? Giving songs in the night,

Cross References

Acts 16:25
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises to God: and the prisoners heard them.

Job 4:17
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Job 8:21
Till he fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing.

Job 21:14
Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways.

Job 27:10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call on God?

Job 36:13
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he binds them.

Psalm 42:8
Yet the LORD will command his loving kindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer to the God of my life.

Psalm 77:6
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

Psalm 149:5
Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud on their beds.

Isaiah 51:13
And forget the LORD your maker, that has stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

35:9-13 Job complained that God did not regard the cries of the oppressed against their oppressors. This he knew not how to reconcile the justice of God and his government. Elihu solves the difficulty. Men do not notice the mercies they enjoy in and under their afflictions, nor are thankful for them, therefore they cannot expect that God should deliver them out of affliction. He gives songs in the night; when our condition is dark and melancholy, there is that in God's providence and promise, which is sufficient to support us, and to enable us even to rejoice in tribulation. When we only pore upon our afflictions, and neglect the consolations of God which are treasured up for us, it is just in God to reject our prayers. Even the things that will kill the body, cannot hurt the soul. If we cry to God for the removal of an affliction, and it is not removed, the reason is, not because the Lord's hand is shortened, or his ear heavy; but because we are not sufficiently humbled.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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 would hear.

Where, &c.—(Jer 2:6, 8; Isa 51:13).

songs—of joy at deliverance (Ps 42:8; 149:5; Ac 16:25).

in the night—unexpectedly (Job 34:20, 25). Rather, "in calamity."