Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 35:13

13. Surely God will not hear vanity , neither will the Almighty regard it.

Either 1. vain and light Persons, that have no true Wisdom or solid Piety in them, but are wholly addicted to vain and worldly things, rejoycing immoderately when they have them, and crying out for want of them, as here they do. Or 2. vain cries, which proceed not from Faith or Piety, but only from self-love and a natural sense of their misery; which is common to them with brute-beasts. The abstract is here put for the concrete▪ as wickedness is oft put for wicked men, and pride for proud Persons, and the like.

Though God be able to help them, as this title of God implies, and though he be the Judge of the World, as the former Name of God signifies, to whom therefore it belongs to right the Oppressed against the Oppressour, yet in this case he justly re[illegible: 1+ letters]useth to help them.

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