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9-10 The oppressed may shriek beneath their wrongs and groan beneath the power of the rich; yet none of them cry to God, asking, ‘Where is God my Maker who gives songs in the night 11 and makes us a little wiser than the animals and birds?’

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“People cry out(A) under a load of oppression;(B)
    they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.(C)
10 But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,(D)
    who gives songs(E) in the night,(F)
11 who teaches(G) us(H) more than he teaches[a] the beasts of the earth
    and makes us wiser than[b] the birds in the sky?’

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Footnotes

  1. Job 35:11 Or night, / 11 who teaches us by
  2. Job 35:11 Or us wise by