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No One Asks, “Where Is God?”

“People cry out under the weight of oppression;
    they cry for help against the power of the mighty.
10 But not one of them asks, ‘Where is God, my Maker,
    who protects me during the night,
11 who gave us greater intelligence than the animals of the earth
    and made us wiser than the birds of the air?’

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“People cry out(A) under a load of oppression;(B)
    they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.(C)
10 But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,(D)
    who gives songs(E) in the night,(F)
11 who teaches(G) us(H) more than he teaches[a] the beasts of the earth
    and makes us wiser than[b] the birds in the sky?’

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Footnotes

  1. Job 35:11 Or night, / 11 who teaches us by
  2. Job 35:11 Or us wise by