Job 35:9 Cross References - NSB

⁹ »Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out. They call for help because of the arm of the mighty.

²³ Time went by and the king of Egypt died. The Israelites still groaned because they were slaves. So they cried out, and their cries for help went up to God.

⁷ Jehovah said: »I have seen how my people are suffering as slaves in Egypt. I have heard them beg for my help because of the way they are being mistreated. I feel sorry for them.

⁹ »My people have begged for my help. I have seen how cruel the Egyptians are to them.

¹ Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews. ² Some said: »We with our sons and our daughters are a great number. Let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.« ³ There were some who said: »We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt. Let us get grain because we are in need.« ⁴ Yet others said: »We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes. ⁵ »But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children. Now we give our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants. Some of our daughters are servants even now. We have no power to stop this. For other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.«

¹⁹ »He leads priests away stripped and overthrows men long established.

¹² »The dying groan from the city. The throat of the wounded cries for help. Yet God pays no attention to their prayer.

⁹ »Do you have an arm (power) like God’s? Can your voice thunder like his?

¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and evil person. Pursue his wickedness until you find no more evil.

²⁸ »They forced the poor to cry out to him, and he hears the cry of those who suffer.

⁵ »Because oppressed people are robbed and needy people groan, I will now arise,« says Jehovah. »I will provide safety for those who long for it.«

² You are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

¹ ([Psalm of David]) Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled upon me. Fighting all day long he oppresses me. ² My foes have trampled upon me all day long. They are many who fight proudly against me.

² Pay attention to me, and answer me. My thoughts are restless. I am confused and distracted. ³ This is because my enemy shouts at me and a wicked person persecutes me. They bring misery crashing down on me, and they attack me out of anger.

³ »There was a widow in that same city. She went to him asking for legal protection from her adversary. ⁴ »At first he refused. Then he thought about it and he said to himself, I do not fear God and have little respect for man. ⁵ »However this widow bothers me. For this reason I will avenge her. If she keeps coming to me she will wear me out.« ⁶ The Lord continued: »Pay attention to what the unrighteous judge said.« ⁷ »Should God avenge his chosen that cry to him day and night, and yet he is longsuffering over them?