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13 God will not listen to their worthless begging.
    God All-Powerful will not pay attention to them.
14 So, Job, God will not listen to you
    when you say that you don’t see him.
You say you are waiting for your chance to meet with him
    and prove that you are innocent.

15 “Job thinks that God does not punish evil
    and that he pays no attention to sin.

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13 Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea;
    the Almighty pays no attention to it.(A)
14 How much less, then, will he listen
    when you say that you do not see him,(B)
that your case(C) is before him
    and you must wait for him,(D)
15 and further, that his anger never punishes(E)
    and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.[a](F)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 35:15 Symmachus, Theodotion and Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

13 (A)Surely God will not listen to empty talk,
Nor will the Almighty regard it.
14 (B)Although you say you do not see Him,
Yet justice is before Him, and (C)you must wait for Him.
15 And now, because He has not (D)punished in His anger,
Nor taken much notice of folly,

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