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13 If God All-Powerful refuses
to answer their empty prayers,
14     he will surely deny
your impatient request
    to face him in court.
15 Job, you were wrong to say
    God doesn't punish sin.

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13 Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea;
    the Almighty pays no attention to it.(A)
14 How much less, then, will he listen
    when you say that you do not see him,(B)
that your case(C) is before him
    and you must wait for him,(D)
15 and further, that his anger never punishes(E)
    and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.[a](F)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 35:15 Symmachus, Theodotion and Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.