Job 11
1 And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and sayde,
2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man of much talk be justified?
Should not the multitude of wordes be answered? or should a great talker be iustified?
3 Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make [thee] ashamed?
Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? and when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?
4 For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
For thou hast sayde, My doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes.
5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee!
6 And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, how that they are the double of what is realised; and know that God passeth by [much] of thine iniquity!
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 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out ye Almighty to his perfection?
8 [It is as] the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst 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 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
The measure thereof is longer then the earth, and it is broader then the sea.
10 If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?
If hee cut off and shut vp, or gather together, who can turne him backe?
11 For he knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when [man] doth not consider it;
For hee knoweth vaine men, and seeth iniquitie, and him that vnderstandeth nothing.
12 Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born [like] the foal of a wild ass.
Yet vaine man would be wise, though man new borne is like a wilde asse colte.
13 If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him:
14 If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;
If iniquitie be in thine hand, put it farre away, and let no wickednesse dwell in thy Tabernacle.
15 Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be stedfast and shalt not fear:
The truely shalt thou lift vp thy face without spot, and shalt be stable, and shalt not feare.
16 For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;
But thou shalt forget thy miserie, and remember it as waters that are past.
17 And life shall arise brighter than noonday; though thou be enshrouded in darkness, thou shalt be as the morning,
Thine age also shall appeare more cleare then the noone day: thou shalt shine and bee as the morning.
18 And thou shalt have confidence, because there shall be hope; and having searched about [thee], thou shalt take rest in safety.
And thou shalt bee bolde, because there is hope: and thou shalt digge pittes, and shalt lye downe safely.
19 Yea, thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; and many shall seek thy favour.
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 shall fail, and [all] refuge shall vanish from them, and their hope [shall be] the breathing out of life.
But the eyes of the wicked shall faile, and their refuge shall perish, and their hope shalbe sorow of minde.
