Job 35:9 "People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.

English Standard Version
“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.

New American Standard Bible
"Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.

King James Bible
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
People cry out because of severe oppression; they shout for help because of the arm of the mighty.

International Standard Version
"They cry out because they have many oppressors; they cry for help because the powerful are abusing them.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they shall cry out : and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.

Darby Bible Translation
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty:

Young's Literal Translation
Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.

Cross References

Exodus 2:23
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God by reason of the bondage.

Exodus 22:23
If you afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

Deuteronomy 24:15
At his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.

Job 12:19
He leads princes away spoiled, and overthrows the mighty.

Job 20:19
Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away an house which he built not;

Job 34:28
So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted.

Job 35:8
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

Ecclesiastes 4:1
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Hosea 7:14
And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they howled on their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

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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

9. (Ec 4:1.) Elihu states in Job's words (Job 24. 12; 30. 20) the difficulty; the "cries" of "the oppressed" not being heard might lead man to think that wrongs are not punished by Him.