Job 35:9-13

Christian Standard Bible

⁹ People cry out because of severe oppression;
they shout for help because of the power of the mighty.^(A)
10 But no one asks, “Where is God my Maker,^(B)
who provides us with songs in the night,^(C)
11 who gives us more understanding than the animals of the earth
and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?” ^(D)
12 There they cry out, but he does not answer,
because of the pride of evil people.^(E)
13 Indeed, God does not listen to empty cries,
and the Almighty does not take note of it—