Job 11
1 And Zophar the Naamathite answers and says:
And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
2 “Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man of much talk be justified?
3 Your boastings make men keep silent, You scorn, and none is causing blushing!
Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make [thee] ashamed?
4 And you say, My discourse [is] pure, And I have been clean in Your eyes.
For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
5 And yet, O that God had spoken! And opens His lips with you.
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
6 And declares to you secrets of wisdom, for counsel has foldings. And know that God forgets of your iniquity for you.
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!
7 Do you find out God by searching? To perfection find out the Mighty One?
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
[It is as] the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know? (Sheol h7585)
9 Its measure [is] longer than earth, and broader than the sea.
The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
10 If He passes on, and shuts up, and assembles, Who then reverses it?
If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?
11 For He has known men of vanity, And He sees iniquity, And one does not consider [it]!
For he knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when [man] doth not consider it;
12 And empty man is bold, And man is born [as] the colt of a wild donkey.
Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born [like] the foal of a wild ass.
13 If you have prepared your heart, And have spread out your hands to Him,
If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,
14 If iniquity [is] in your hand, put it far off, And do not let perverseness dwell in your tents.
If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;
15 For then you lift up your face from blemish, And you have been firm, and do not fear.
Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be stedfast and shalt not fear:
16 For you forget misery, As waters passed away you remember.
For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;
17 And age rises above the noon, You fly—you are as the morning.
And life shall arise brighter than noonday; though thou be enshrouded in darkness, thou shalt be as the morning,
18 And you have trusted because there is hope, And searched—in confidence you lie down,
And thou shalt have confidence, because there shall be hope; and having searched about [thee], thou shalt take rest in safety.
19 And you have rested, And none is causing trembling, And many have begged [at] your face;
Yea, thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; and many shall seek thy favour.
20 And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge has perished from them, And their hope [is] a breathing out of soul!”
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.
