Job 35:13

Vanity — Vain persons, that have no wisdom or piety in them.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Surely God will not hear vanity - A vain, hollow, heartless petition. The object of Elihu here is to account for the reason why sufferers are not...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Men cry out by reason of oppression, but do not inquire after God, who gives songs in the night and makes us wiser than the animals. They cry because...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

THE ALMIGHTY. Hebrew El Shaddai. GOD ALMIGHTY.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. Surely God will not hear vanity - He will not attend to such vain cries; they c...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Vanity ] or, unreality.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

God will not hear vanity. — Some understand this as part of the cry in Job 35:12 : “Seeing it is all in vain, God doth not hear, neither doth the...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XXVI. THE DIVINE PREROGATIVE Job 35:1-16 ; Job 36:1-33 ; Job 37:1-24 AFTER a long digression Elihu returns to consider the statement ascribe...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(9) В¶ By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. (10) But none saith...
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Surely God will not hear vanity ,.... Or "a lie" z, than which nothing is more an abomination to him; if men come to him with a lie in their mouths,...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. Ver. 13. Surely God will not hear vanity ] Prayer without faith is but an em...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Surely God will not hear vanity Either, 1st, Vain and light persons, that have no true wisdom nor solid piety in them: but are wholly addicted to v...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Elihu had spoken of God's testing Job (ch.34:36), and in this chapter provides what is true of God's test of mankind. It is clearly connected with ch...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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. 10 But none...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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¹³ Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

Related Commentaries of Job 35:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Job 35:13