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13 “Surely God does not hear an empty plea,
and Shaddai does not regard it.
14 How much less[a] when you say that you do not see him,
that the case is before him,[b] and you are waiting for him!
15 But[c] now, because his anger does not punish,
and he does not acknowledge the transgression at all,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 35:14 Literally “Also for”
  2. Job 35:14 Literally “to the face of him”
  3. Job 35:15 Hebrew “And”

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 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

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