Job 35:9
Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
BSB
ASV
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
KJV
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry - It is not quite easy to see the connection which this verse has with what goes before, or its bearing on the argument of Elihu. It seems however, to refer to the “oppressed in general,” and to the fact, to which Job had himself adverted Job 24:12, that people are borne down by oppression and that God does not interpose to save them.
Is there a righteous God, and can it be that he should so slowly hear, so slowly see? How Elihu solves the difficulty. If the cries of the oppressed be not heard, the fault is not in God; he is ready to hear and help them.
(Ec 4:1.) Elihu states in Job's words (Job 24. 20) the difficulty; the "cries" of "the oppressed" not being heard might lead man to think that wrongs are not punished by Him.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Exodus 2:23After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
leads to
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,
The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.
After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
Through
Psalms 43:2For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
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I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song.
Through
Job 34:28They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.
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The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.