Job 35:9-16

Revised Standard Version

⁹ “Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out;
    they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
¹⁰ But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker,
    who gives songs in the night,
¹¹ who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth,
    and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
¹² There they cry out, but he does not answer,
    because of the pride of evil men.
¹³ Surely God does not hear an empty cry,
    nor does the Almighty regard it.
¹⁴ How much less when you say that you do not see him,
    that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
¹⁵ And now, because his anger does not punish,
    and he does not greatly heed transgression,^[a]
16 Job opens his mouth in empty talk,
    he multiplies words without knowledge.”