Job 27:9

27:9 Does God listen to his cry

when distress overtakes him?

Job 34:28

34:28 so that they caused ¹  the cry of the poor

to come before him,

so that he hears ²  the cry of the needy.

Job 35:13

35:13 Surely it is an empty cry ³  – God does not hear it;

the Almighty does not take notice of it.

Job 39:7

39:7 It scorns the tumult in the town;

it does not hear the shouts of a driver. ⁴ 

[34:28]  ¹ tn The verse begins with the infinitive construct of בּוֹא (bo’, “go”), showing the result of their impious actions.

[34:28]  ² tn The verb here is an imperfect; the clause is circumstantial to the preceding clause, showing either the result, or the concomitant action.

[35:13]  ¹ tn Heb “surely – vanity, he does not hear.” The cry is an empty cry, not a prayer to God. Dhorme translates it, “It is a pure waste of words.”

[39:7]  ¹ sn The animal is happier in open countryside than in a busy town, and on its own rather than being driven by a herdsman.