Job 11
1 Then Sophar the Minaean answered and said,
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and sayde,
2 He that speaks much, should also hear on the other side: or does the fluent speaker think himself to be righteous? blessed [is] the short lived offspring of woman.
Should not the multitude of wordes be answered? or should a great talker be iustified?
3 Be not a speaker of many words; for is there none to answer thee?
Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? and when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?
4 For say not, I am pure in my works, and blameless before him.
For thou hast sayde, My doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes.
5 But oh that the Lord would speak to thee, and open his lips to thee!
But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee!
6 Then shall he declare to thee the power of wisdom; for it shall be double of that which is with thee: and then shalt thou know, that a just recompence of thy sins has come to thee from the Lord.
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 Wilt thou find out the traces of the Lord? or hast thou come to the end [of that] which the Almighty has made?
Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out ye Almighty to his perfection?
8 Heaven [is] high; and what wilt thou do? and there are deeper things than those in hell; what dost thou 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 Or longer than the measure of the earth, or the breadth of the sea.
The measure thereof is longer then the earth, and it is broader then the sea.
10 And if he should overthrow all things, who will say to him, What hast thou done?
If hee cut off and shut vp, or gather together, who can turne him backe?
11 For he knows the works of transgressors; and when he sees wickedness, he will not overlook [it].
For hee knoweth vaine men, and seeth iniquitie, and him that vnderstandeth nothing.
12 But man vainly buoys himself up with words; and a mortal born of woman [is] like an ass in the desert.
Yet vaine man would be wise, though man new borne is like a wilde asse colte.
13 For if thou hast made thine heart pure, and liftest up [thine] hands towards him;
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him:
14 if there is any iniquity in thy hands, put if far from thee, and let not unrighteousness lodge in thy habitation.
If iniquitie be in thine hand, put it farre away, and let no wickednesse dwell in thy Tabernacle.
15 For thus shall thy countenance shine again, as pure water; and thou shalt divest thyself of uncleanness, and shalt not fear.
The truely shalt thou lift vp thy face without spot, and shalt be stable, and shalt not feare.
16 And thou shalt forget trouble, as a wave that has passed by; and thou shalt not be scared.
But thou shalt forget thy miserie, and remember it as waters that are past.
17 And thy prayer [shall be] as the morning star, and life shall arise to thee [as] from the noonday.
Thine age also shall appeare more cleare then the noone day: thou shalt shine and bee as the morning.
18 And thou shalt be confident, because thou hast hope; and peace shall dawn to thee from out of anxiety and care.
And thou shalt bee bolde, because there is hope: and thou shalt digge pittes, and shalt lye downe safely.
19 For thou shalt be at ease, and there shall be no one to fight against thee; and many shall charge, and make supplication to thee.
For when thou takest thy rest, none shall make thee afraide: yea, many shall make sute vnto thee.
20 But safety shall fail them; for their hope is destruction, and the eyes of the ungodly shall waste away.
But the eyes of the wicked shall faile, and their refuge shall perish, and their hope shalbe sorow of minde.
