Job 35:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.”
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“Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Surely God will not hear an emptycry, Neither will the Almighty regard it.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 35:13 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 22:22Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.
- Job 27:8For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- Job 30:20I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.
- Psalms 66:18If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
- Psalms 102:17He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.
- Proverbs 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
- Proverbs 15:29The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
- Proverbs 28:9Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
- Ecclesiastes 5:1Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
- Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
- Jeremiah 11:11Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.
- Hosea 7:14They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.
- Hosea 8:2Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”
- Amos 5:22Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
- Matthew 6:7And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.
- Matthew 20:21“What do you want?” He inquired. She answered, “Declare that in Your kingdom one of these two sons of mine may sit at Your right hand, and the other at Your left.”
- James 4:3And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
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