Job 35:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

Cross References

Job 15:31

Let them not trust in emptiness, deceiving themselves, for emptiness will be their recompense.

Job 30:20

I cry to you, and you do not answer me; I stand, and you merely look at me.

Psalm 102:17

He will regard the prayer of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.

Psalm 66:18

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Proverbs 15:29

The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 28:9

When one will not listen to the law, even one’s prayers are an abomination.

Isaiah 1:15

When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore, thus says the Lord, assuredly I am going to bring disaster upon them that they cannot escape; though they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.

Hosea 7:14

They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; they gash themselves for grain and wine; they rebel against me.

Amos 5:22

Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them, and the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals I will not look upon.

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time because they have acted wickedly.

Matthew 6:7

“When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.

John 9:31

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but he does listen to one who worships him and obeys his will.

James 4:3

You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures.