Job 11
11
Zophar Speaks to Job
1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:
2“Should these words go unanswered?
Is this talker in the right?
3Your lies do not make people quiet;
people should correct you when you make fun of God.
4You say, ‘My teachings are right,
and I am clean in God’s sight.’
5I wish God would speak
and open his lips against you
6and tell you the secrets of wisdom,
because wisdom has two sides.
Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.
7“Can you understand the secrets of God?
Can you search the limits of the Almighty?
8His limits are higher than the heavens; you cannot reach them!
They are deeper than the grave; you cannot understand them!
9His limits are longer than the earth
and wider than the sea.
10“If God comes along and puts you in prison
or calls you into court, no one can stop him.
11God knows who is evil,
and when he sees evil, he takes note of it.
12A fool cannot become wise
any more than a wild donkey can be born tame.
13“You must give your whole heart to him
and hold out your hands to him for help.
14Put away the sin that is in your hand;
let no evil remain in your tent.
15Then you can lift up your face without shame,
and you can stand strong without fear.
16You will forget your trouble
and remember it only as water gone by.
17Your life will be as bright as the noonday sun,
and darkness will seem like morning.
18You will feel safe because there is hope;
you will look around and rest in safety.
19You will lie down, and no one will scare you.
Many people will want favors from you.
20But the wicked will not be able to see,
so they will not escape.
Their only hope will be to die.”
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Job 11
11
1And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: —
2Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?
3Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!
4And thou sayest, ‘Pure [is] my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.’
5And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.
6And declare to thee secrets of wisdom, For counsel hath foldings. And know thou that God forgetteth for thee, [Some] of thine iniquity.
7By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?
8Heights of the heavens! — what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! — what knowest thou?
9Longer than earth [is] its measure, And broader than the sea.
10If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?
11For he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity, And one doth not consider [it]!
12And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.
13If thou — thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,
14If iniquity [is] in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.
15For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not.
16For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.
17And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest — as the morning thou art.
18And thou hast trusted because their is hope, And searched — in confidence thou liest down,
19And thou hast rested, And none is causing trembling, And many have entreated thy face;
20And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope [is] a breathing out of soul!
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