Job 35:9
Good News Translation
When people are oppressed, they groan; they cry for someone to save them.

New Revised Standard Version
“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.

Contemporary English Version
In times of trouble, everyone begs the mighty God to have mercy.

New American Bible
In great oppression people cry out; they call for help because of the power of the great,

Douay-Rheims Bible
By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.

they make

Job 24:12 Out of the cities they have made men to groan, and the soul of the wounded hath cried out, and God doth not suffer it to pass unrevenged.

Job 34:28 So that they caused the cry of the needy to come to him, and he heard the voice of the poor.

Exodus 2:23 Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works.

Exodus 3:7,9 And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works; . . .

Nehemiah 5:1-5 Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. . . .

Psalm 12:5 By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord. I will set him in safety: I will deal confidently in his regard.

Psalm 43:2 For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me?

Psalm 55:2,3 Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled, . . .

Psalm 56:1,2 Unto the end, for a people that is removed at a distance from the sanctuary: for David, for an inscription of a title (or pillar) when the Philistines held him in Geth. [2] Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me. . . .

Luke 18:3-7 And there was a certain widow in that city; and she came to him, saying: Avenge me of my adversary. . . .

the arm

Job 40:9 And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Psalm 10:15 Break thou the arm of the sinner and of the malignant: his sin shall be sought, and shall not be found.

Context
Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice
8Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man. 9By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.10And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night?…
Cross References
Exodus 2:23
Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works.

Exodus 22:23
If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry:

Deuteronomy 24:15
But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin.

Job 12:19
He leadeth away priests without glory, and overthroweth nobles.

Job 20:19
Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.

Job 34:28
So that they caused the cry of the needy to come to him, and he heard the voice of the poor.

Job 35:8
Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.

Ecclesiastes 4:1
I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any.

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.

Job 35:8
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