Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 35:9 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 9. 9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
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Role in This Section
Job 35:9 opens the thought unit with the words “By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason….” Elihu states “By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry” as one poetic claim in Elihu Says Pride Can Corrupt the Oppressed Cry.
Read It With
- Job 35:9–35:13
Read Job 35:9 with 35:9–35:13. Read alone, “By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason…” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Elihu acknowledges cries under oppression but claims people fail to seek the Creator and that God does not hear empty pride.
Why It Needs Context
Job 35:9 depends on 35:9–35:13; isolating “By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason…” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Elihu and “Elihu Says Pride Can Corrupt the Oppressed Cry.”
Read Job 35:9–13 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 35:9–35:13 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Elihu Says Pride Can Corrupt the Oppressed Cry.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 9. 9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Verse 10. 10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
Verse 11. 11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
Verse 12. 12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Verse 13. 13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 35:9–35:13 — Elihu Says Pride Can Corrupt the Oppressed CrySources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 35:9–35:13, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
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Open Scriptures, release 2.2
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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 35:9–35:13
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