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"Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

"But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,

But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

Who teaches us more than the animals of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

"There they cry out, but He does not answer Because of the pride of evil people.

There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

"God certainly will not listen to an empty cry, Nor will the Almighty regard it.

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

"How much less when you say you do not look at Him, The case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

"And now, because He has not avenged His anger, Nor has He acknowledged wrongdoing well,

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

So Job opens his mouth with empty words; He multiplies words without knowledge."

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.