Job 35:10-12

Living Bible

^9-10 The oppressed may shriek beneath their wrongs and groan beneath the power of the rich; yet none of them cry to God, asking, ‘Where is God my Maker who gives songs in the night ¹¹ and makes us a little wiser than the animals and birds?’

¹² “But when anyone does cry out this question to him, he never replies by instant punishment of the tyrants.^[a]