Job 35:10
New International Version
But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

New Living Translation
Yet they don’t ask, ‘Where is God my Creator, the one who gives songs in the night?

English Standard Version
But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

Berean Standard Bible
But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

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

New King James Version
But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,

New American Standard Bible
“But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,

NASB 1995
“But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,

NASB 1977
“But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,

Legacy Standard Bible
But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs of praise in the night,

Amplified Bible
“But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs [of rejoicing] in the night,

Christian Standard Bible
But no one asks, “Where is God my Maker, who provides us with songs in the night,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But no one asks, “Where is God my Maker, who provides us with songs in the night,

American Standard Version
But none saith, Where is God my Maker, Who giveth songs in the night,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they do not say: ‘where is God who made us, who gives ideas in the night?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But none said, Where is God that made me, who appoints the night-watches;

Contemporary English Version
But after their Creator helps them through hard times, they forget about him,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he hath not said : Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night?

English Revised Version
But none saith, Where is God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But no one asks, 'Where is God, my Creator, who inspires songs in the night,

Good News Translation
But they don't turn to God, their Creator, who gives them hope in their darkest hours.

International Standard Version
He never asks, 'Where is God, my Creator, who gives me songs in the night,

JPS Tanakh 1917
But none saith: 'Where is God my Maker, Who giveth songs in the night;

Literal Standard Version
And none said, Where [is] God my Maker? Giving songs in the night,

Majority Standard Bible
But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

New American Bible
No one says, “Where is God, my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

NET Bible
But no one says, 'Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,

New Revised Standard Version
But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives strength in the night,

New Heart English Bible
But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

Webster's Bible Translation
But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

World English Bible
But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

Young's Literal Translation
And none said, 'Where is God my maker? Giving songs in the night,

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Context
Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice
9Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty. 10But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night, 11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’…

Cross References
Acts 16:25
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

Job 4:17
Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

Job 8:21
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.

Job 21:14
Yet they say to God: 'Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.

Job 27:10
Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?

Job 36:13
The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when He binds them, they do not cry for help.

Psalm 42:8
The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.


Treasury of Scripture

But none said, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

none

Job 36:13
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.

1 Chronicles 10:13,14
So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it; …

2 Chronicles 28:22,23
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz…

Where

Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

Isaiah 51:13
And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

1 Peter 4:19
Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

my

Job 32:22
For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

Job 36:3
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Isaiah 54:5
For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

who

Psalm 42:8
Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

Psalm 77:6
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

Psalm 119:62
At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.

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(10) But none saith.--Some render this, "But he who giveth songs in the night saith not, Where is God my Maker," i.e., the selfish and luxurious oppressor, who spendeth the night in feasting and revelry. This is an intelligible meaning. On the other hand, though the phrase, "who giveth songs in the night," has become proverbial, and, with the meaning assigned to it, is very beautiful, it may be doubted whether it is so obvious or natural in this place. This is a matter for individual taste and judgment to decide. If it is understood of God, it ascribes to Him the turning of sorrow into gladness, and the night of affliction into joy--an office which is, indeed, frequently assigned to God, but of which the appropriateness is not so manifest here. The decision of this question will perhaps partly depend upon the view we take of the words which follow--"Where is God my Maker?"--whether they are part of the cry of the oppressed or whether they are the words of Elihu. If the latter, then they become more intelligible; if otherwise, it is difficult to see their special appropriateness in this particular place. Perhaps it is better to regard them as the words of Elihu.

Verse 10. - But none saith, Where is God my Maker? The oppressed, in many cases, do not appeal to God at all. They mutter and complain and groan because of their afflictions; but they have not enough faith in God to cry to him. Or, if they do so cry, it is not in a right spirit; it is despondingly, despairingly, not confidently or cheerfully. God is one who giveth songs in the night. The truly pious man sings hymns of praise in his affliction, as Paul and Silas did in the jail at Philippi, looking to God with faith and a lively hope for deliverance.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But no
וְֽלֹא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

one asks,
אָמַ֗ר (’ā·mar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

‘Where [is]
אַ֭יֵּה (’ay·yêh)
Interrogative
Strong's 335: Where?, how?

God
אֱל֣וֹהַּ (’ĕ·lō·w·ah)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 433: God -- a deity, the Deity

my Maker,
עֹשָׂ֑י (‘ō·śāy)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

who gives us
נֹתֵ֖ן (nō·ṯên)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

songs
זְמִר֣וֹת (zə·mi·rō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2158: A song

in the night,
בַּלָּֽיְלָה׃ (bal·lā·yə·lāh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3915: A twist, night, adversity


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