< Job 11 >
1 and to answer Zophar [the] Naamathite and to say
And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
2 abundance word not to answer and if: surely no man lip: words to justify
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man of much talk be justified?
3 bluster your man be quiet and to mock and nothing be humiliated
Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make [thee] ashamed?
4 and to say pure teaching my and pure to be in/on/with eye your
For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
5 and but who? to give: if only! god to speak: speak and to open lips his with you
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against 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
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 search god to find if: surely no till limit Almighty to find
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
8 height heaven what? to work deep from hell: Sheol what? to know (Sheol )
[It is as] the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know? (Sheol )
9 long from land: country/planet garment her and broad: wide from sea
The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
10 if to pass and to shut and to gather and who? to return: return him
If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?
11 for he/she/it to know man vanity: false and to see: see evil: wickedness and not to understand
For he knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when [man] doth not consider it;
12 and man be hollow to encourage and colt wild donkey man to beget
Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born [like] the foal of a wild ass.
13 if you(m. s.) to establish: prepare heart your and to spread to(wards) him palm your
If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,
14 if evil: wickedness in/on/with hand your to remove him and not to dwell in/on/with tent your injustice
If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;
15 for then to lift: kindness face: kindness your from blemish and to be to pour: firm and not to fear
Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be stedfast and shalt not fear:
16 for you(m. s.) trouble to forget like/as water to pass to remember
For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;
17 and from midday to arise: establish lifetime/world gloom like/as morning to be
And life shall arise brighter than noonday; though thou be enshrouded in darkness, thou shalt be as the morning,
18 and to trust for there hope and to search to/for security to lie down: sleep
And thou shalt have confidence, because there shall be hope; and having searched about [thee], thou shalt take rest in safety.
19 and to stretch and nothing to tremble and to beg face of your many
Yea, thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; and many shall seek thy favour.
20 and eye wicked to end: expend and refuge to perish from them and hope their exhalation soul: life
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.