Job 35

Which worship songs are based on Job 35?

  1. God Leads Us Along — Gaither Vocal Band (2014) Job 35:10

    The description of God supplying music during nighttime sorrow closely echoes Elihu's description of the Creator providing nighttime songs.

  2. HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING — Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter (2023) Job 35:10

    The third verse directly adopts the KJV wording for God providing songs during the night, presenting worship as a divine gift amid darkness.

  3. How Can I Keep From Singing — Ginny Owens (2009) Job 35:10

    The hymn closely adapts Elihu’s description of God giving people songs during the night. It applies that distinctive biblical expression to divine sustenance amid darkness and suffering.

  4. City of Refuge — Impending Doom (2009) Job 35:10

    The refrain closely echoes Elihu's description of God giving people music during the nighttime. Its placement within an image of shelter preserves the passage's association between divine help and distress.

  5. How Can I Keep From Singing — Buddy Greene (2010) Job 35:10

    The third verse closely adapts Elihu’s description of God giving songs during the night. This distinctive wording grounds the hymn’s assurance that God sustains praise amid darkness.

Job 35 (King James Version)

1 Elihu spake moreover, and said,

2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?

3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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

11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

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

14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.