Job 11
1 And Zophar the Naamathite answers and says:
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and sayde,
2 “Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?
Should not the multitude of wordes be answered? or should a great talker be iustified?
3 Your boastings make men keep silent, You scorn, and none is causing blushing!
Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? and when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?
4 And you say, My discourse [is] pure, And I have been clean in Your eyes.
For thou hast sayde, My doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes.
5 And yet, O that God had spoken! And opens His lips with you.
But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee!
6 And declares to you secrets of wisdom, for counsel has foldings. And know that God forgets of your iniquity for you.
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 Do you find out God by searching? To perfection find out the Mighty One?
Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out ye Almighty to his perfection?
The heauens are hie, what canst thou doe? it is deeper then the hell, how canst thou know it? (Sheol h7585)
9 Its measure [is] longer than earth, and broader than the sea.
The measure thereof is longer then the earth, and it is broader then the sea.
10 If He passes on, and shuts up, and assembles, Who then reverses it?
If hee cut off and shut vp, or gather together, who can turne him backe?
11 For He has known men of vanity, And He sees iniquity, And one does not consider [it]!
For hee knoweth vaine men, and seeth iniquitie, and him that vnderstandeth nothing.
12 And empty man is bold, And man is born [as] the colt of a wild donkey.
Yet vaine man would be wise, though man new borne is like a wilde asse colte.
13 If you have prepared your heart, And have spread out your hands to Him,
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him:
14 If iniquity [is] in your hand, put it far off, And do not let perverseness dwell in your tents.
If iniquitie be in thine hand, put it farre away, and let no wickednesse dwell in thy Tabernacle.
15 For then you lift up your face from blemish, And you have been firm, and do not fear.
The truely shalt thou lift vp thy face without spot, and shalt be stable, and shalt not feare.
16 For you forget misery, As waters passed away you remember.
But thou shalt forget thy miserie, and remember it as waters that are past.
17 And age rises above the noon, You fly—you are as the morning.
Thine age also shall appeare more cleare then the noone day: thou shalt shine and bee as the morning.
18 And you have trusted because there is hope, And searched—in confidence you lie down,
And thou shalt bee bolde, because there is hope: and thou shalt digge pittes, and shalt lye downe safely.
19 And you have rested, And none is causing trembling, And many have begged [at] your face;
For when thou takest thy rest, none shall make thee afraide: yea, many shall make sute vnto thee.
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 faile, and their refuge shall perish, and their hope shalbe sorow of minde.
