Morning Bible Study: Job 35:14-16

14 how much less when you complain

that you do not see him,

that your case is before him

and you are waiting for him.

15 But now, because God’s anger does not punish

and he does not pay attention to transgression,

16 Job opens his mouth in vain

and multiplies words without knowledge.

Commentary

(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, 1706 -- www.christianity.com)

"As in prosperity we are ready to think our mountain will never be brought low; so when in adversity, we are ready to think our valley will never be filled up. But to conclude that tomorrow must be as this day, is as absurd as to think that the weather, when either fair or foul, will be always so. 

When Job looked up to God, he had no reason to speak despairingly. There is a day of judgment, when all that seems amiss will be found to be right, and all that seems dark and difficult will be cleared up and set straight. And if there is Divine wrath in our troubles, it is because we quarrel with God, are fretful, and distrust Divine Providence. This was Job's case. Elihu was directed by God to humble Job, for as to some things he had both opened his mouth in vain, and had multiplied words without knowledge. 

Let us be admonished, in our afflictions, not so much to set forth the greatness of our suffering, as the greatness of the mercy of God."

Morning Bible Study: Job 35:9-13

9 People cry out because of severe oppression;
they shout for help because of the power of the mighty.
10 But no one asks, “Where is God my Maker,
who provides us with songs in the night,
11 who gives us more understanding than the animals of the earth
and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?” 
12 There they cry out, but he does not answer,
because of the pride of evil people.
13 Indeed, God does not listen to empty cries,
and the Almighty does not take note of it—

Commentary
(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, 1706 -- www.christianity.com)
 
"Job complained that God did not regard the cries of the oppressed against their oppressors. This he knew not how to reconcile the justice of God and his government. Elihu solves the difficulty. Men do not notice the mercies they enjoy in and under their afflictions, nor are thankful for them, therefore they cannot expect that God should deliver them out of affliction. 

He gives songs in the night; when our condition is dark and melancholy, there is that in God's providence and promise, which is sufficient to support us, and to enable us even to rejoice in tribulation."