New Revised Standard Version
Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

Contemporary English Version
If God All-Powerful refuses to answer their empty prayers,

New American Bible
But it is idle to say God does not hear or that the Almighty does not take notice.

Douay-Rheims Bible
God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into the causes of every one.

God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into the causes of every one.

God

Job 22:22-27 Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart. . . .

Job 27:8,9 For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul? . . .

Proverbs 15:8,29 The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable. . . .

Proverbs 28:9 He that turneth away his ears from hearing the law, his prayer shall be an abomination.

Ecclesiastes 5:1-3 Keep thy foot, when thou goest into the house of God, and draw nigh to hear. For much better is obedience, than the victims of fools, who know not what evil they do. . . .

Isaiah 1:15 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

Jeremiah 11:11 Wherefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring in evils upon them, which they shall not be able to escape: and they shall cry to me, and I will not hearken to them.

Hosea 7:14 And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed from me.

Hosea 8:2,3 They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee. . . .

Matthew 6:7 And when you are praying, speak not much, as the heathens. For they think that in their much speaking they may be heard.

Matthew 20:21,22 Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom. . . .

James 4:3 You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your concupiscences.

regard

Job 30:20 I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.

Psalm 102:17 He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.

Amos 5:22 And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.