Job 34:28 - Exposition

So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him . Elihu views the wicked man as almost certainly an oppressor, whose misdeeds "cause the cry of the poor to come before God," and provoke God, the Avenger of the poor and needy, to visit him with chastisement. And he heareth the cry of the afflicted (comp. Exodus 2:23 , Exodus 2:24 ; Exodus 22:23 , Exodus 22:24 ; Psalms 12:5 , etc.) God's ears are ever open to the cry of the oppressed, and his hand is ever heavy upon those who "afflict" the weak and defenceless ( Isaiah 1:24 ; Isaiah 3:12-15 ; Amos 5:11 , Amos 5:12 ; Micah 3:1-4 ; Habakkuk 1:13 ).