< Job 11 >

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite began speaking and said,
and to answer Zophar [the] Naamathite and to say
2 “So many words be answered, shouldn't they? Or is a person proved right by doing a lot of talking?
abundance word not to answer and if: surely no man lip: words to justify
3 Should all your babbling force people to keep quiet? When you mock, shouldn't someone make you feel ashamed?
bluster your man be quiet and to mock and nothing be humiliated
4 You said, ‘What I teach is the pure truth,’ and ‘in God's eyes I am clean.’
and to say pure teaching my and pure to be in/on/with eye your
5 If only God would speak up and tell you directly,
and but who? to give: if only! god to speak: speak and to open lips his with you
6 because then he would explain to you the secrets of wisdom. True wisdom has many sides to it. God's treatment of you is far better than your guilt deserves.
and to tell to/for you secret wisdom for double to/for wisdom and to know for to forget to/for you god from iniquity: guilt your
7 Can you find out the mysteries of God? Can you discover all the wisdom of the Almighty?
search god to find if: surely no till limit Almighty to find
8 It is greater than the heavens—what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol—what can you know? (Sheol h7585)
height heaven what? to work deep from hell: Sheol what? to know (Sheol h7585)
9 It extends farther than the earth, and wider than the sea.
long from land: country/planet garment her and broad: wide from sea
10 If God comes and imprisons someone, or assembles the court for judgment, who can stop him?
if to pass and to shut and to gather and who? to return: return him
11 For God knows who are deceivers—when he sees someone sin, he pays attention to it.
for he/she/it to know man vanity: false and to see: see evil: wickedness and not to understand
12 Stupid people will become wise when wild donkeys are born tame!
and man be hollow to encourage and colt wild donkey man to beget
13 But if you repent and spread out your hands to pray to him,
if you(m. s.) to establish: prepare heart your and to spread to(wards) him palm your
14 if you get rid of your sins and don't let wickedness continue in your life,
if evil: wickedness in/on/with hand your to remove him and not to dwell in/on/with tent your injustice
15 then you would be able to hold your head high in innocence, you will be firm and unafraid.
for then to lift: kindness face: kindness your from blemish and to be to pour: firm and not to fear
16 You will forget your misery, remembering it only as water under the bridge.
for you(m. s.) trouble to forget like/as water to pass to remember
17 Your life will shine brighter than the noonday sun; even darkness will be like the morning.
and from midday to arise: establish lifetime/world gloom like/as morning to be
18 You will have confidence because there is hope; you will be protected and rest in safety.
and to trust for there hope and to search to/for security to lie down: sleep
19 You will lie down to sleep with no one to frighten you, and many will come asking for your favor.
and to stretch and nothing to tremble and to beg face of your many
20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail, they will not be able to escape, and their only hope is in death.”
and eye wicked to end: expend and refuge to perish from them and hope their exhalation soul: life

< Job 11 >