“Will God hear his cry When distress comes upon him?
Parallel translations
- WEB Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
- KJV Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
- BSB Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?
- NKJV Will God hear his cry When trouble comes upon him?
- NLT Will God listen to their cry when trouble comes upon them?
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Quick answer
Job asks whether God will hear the godless man's cry in trouble. It matters because it warns that crying out only in crisis brings no help.
Overview
Job questions whether God will heed the godless when distress comes upon him. The implied answer is that the one who ignored God in prosperity has no claim on Him in calamity. This sobering truth calls all to seek the Lord while He may be found, before the day of trouble (Isa. 55:6).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Jer 14:12When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.”
- Isa 1:15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
- Prov 1:28Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
- Job 35:12–13There they cry, but no one gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
- Ps 18:41They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
- Mic 3:4Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”
- Jas 4:3You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
- Zech 7:13It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;
- Prov 28:9He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
- Hos 7:14They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
- Ezek 8:18Therefore will I also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”
- Ps 66:18If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
- Jer 11:11Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to them.
- Ps 109:7When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.
- John 9:31We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
- Luke 13:25When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
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