< Job 11 >
1 and to answer Zophar [the] Naamathite and to say
Then Sophar the Minaean answered and said,
2 abundance word not to answer and if: surely no man lip: words to justify
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.
3 bluster your man be quiet and to mock and nothing be humiliated
Be not a speaker of many words; for is there none to answer thee?
4 and to say pure teaching my and pure to be in/on/with eye your
For say not, I am pure in my works, and blameless before him.
5 and but who? to give: if only! god to speak: speak and to open lips his with you
But oh that the Lord would speak to thee, and open his lips to thee!
6 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
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.
7 search god to find if: surely no till limit Almighty to find
Wilt thou find out the traces of the Lord? or hast thou come to the end [of that] which the Almighty has made?
8 height heaven what? to work deep from hell: Sheol what? to know (Sheol )
Heaven [is] high; and what wilt thou do? and there are deeper things than those in hell; what dost thou know? (Sheol )
9 long from land: country/planet garment her and broad: wide from sea
Or longer than the measure of the earth, or the breadth of the sea.
10 if to pass and to shut and to gather and who? to return: return him
And if he should overthrow all things, who will say to him, What hast thou done?
11 for he/she/it to know man vanity: false and to see: see evil: wickedness and not to understand
For he knows the works of transgressors; and when he sees wickedness, he will not overlook [it].
12 and man be hollow to encourage and colt wild donkey man to beget
But man vainly buoys himself up with words; and a mortal born of woman [is] like an ass in the desert.
13 if you(m. s.) to establish: prepare heart your and to spread to(wards) him palm your
For if thou hast made thine heart pure, and liftest up [thine] hands towards him;
14 if evil: wickedness in/on/with hand your to remove him and not to dwell in/on/with tent your injustice
if there is any iniquity in thy hands, put if far from thee, and let not unrighteousness lodge in thy habitation.
15 for then to lift: kindness face: kindness your from blemish and to be to pour: firm and not to fear
For thus shall thy countenance shine again, as pure water; and thou shalt divest thyself of uncleanness, and shalt not fear.
16 for you(m. s.) trouble to forget like/as water to pass to remember
And thou shalt forget trouble, as a wave that has passed by; and thou shalt not be scared.
17 and from midday to arise: establish lifetime/world gloom like/as morning to be
And thy prayer [shall be] as the morning star, and life shall arise to thee [as] from the noonday.
18 and to trust for there hope and to search to/for security to lie down: sleep
And thou shalt be confident, because thou hast hope; and peace shall dawn to thee from out of anxiety and care.
19 and to stretch and nothing to tremble and to beg face of your many
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.
20 and eye wicked to end: expend and refuge to perish from them and hope their exhalation soul: life
But safety shall fail them; for their hope is destruction, and the eyes of the ungodly shall waste away.