Job 35:9-16

Expanded Bible

⁹ “·People [^LThey] cry out ·when they are in trouble [due to their many oppressions];
    they ·beg for relief [shout for help] ·from powerful people [^Lbecause of the arm of the strong].
¹⁰ But no one asks, ‘Where is God, my Maker,
    who gives us ·songs [or strength] in the night,
¹¹ who ·makes us smarter [or teaches us more] than the animals of the earth
    and wiser than the birds of the ·air [heavens]?’
¹² He does not answer evil people when they cry out,
    because the wicked are proud.
¹³ God does not listen to their useless begging;
    the Almighty pays no attention to them.
¹⁴ ·He will listen to you even [^LHow much] less
    when you say that you do not see him,
    that your case is before him,
    that you must wait for him,
¹⁵     that his anger never punishes,
    and that he doesn’t notice evil.
¹⁶ So Job is only speaking ·nonsense [meaningless things],
    saying many words ·without knowing what is true [ignorantly].”