< Job 11 >

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and sayde,
2 “Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?
Should not the multitude of wordes be answered? or should a great talker be iustified?
3 Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? and when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?
4 You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’
For thou hast sayde, My doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes.
5 But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,
But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee!
6 and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
That he might shewe thee the secretes of wisedome, howe thou hast deserued double, according to right: know therefore that God hath forgotten thee for thine iniquitie.
7 Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out ye Almighty to his perfection?
8 They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know? (Sheol h7585)
The heauens are hie, what canst thou doe? it is deeper then the hell, how canst thou know it? (Sheol h7585)
9 Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
The measure thereof is longer then the earth, and it is broader then the sea.
10 If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
If hee cut off and shut vp, or gather together, who can turne him backe?
11 Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?
For hee knoweth vaine men, and seeth iniquitie, and him that vnderstandeth nothing.
12 But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
Yet vaine man would be wise, though man new borne is like a wilde asse colte.
13 As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him:
14 if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
If iniquitie be in thine hand, put it farre away, and let no wickednesse dwell in thy Tabernacle.
15 then indeed you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and unafraid.
The truely shalt thou lift vp thy face without spot, and shalt be stable, and shalt not feare.
16 For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.
But thou shalt forget thy miserie, and remember it as waters that are past.
17 Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
Thine age also shall appeare more cleare then the noone day: thou shalt shine and bee as the morning.
18 You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.
And thou shalt bee bolde, because there is hope: and thou shalt digge pittes, and shalt lye downe safely.
19 You will lie down without fear, and many will court your favor.
For when thou takest thy rest, none shall make thee afraide: yea, many shall make sute vnto thee.
20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
But the eyes of the wicked shall faile, and their refuge shall perish, and their hope shalbe sorow of minde.

< Job 11 >