< Job 11 >

1 and to answer Zophar [the] Naamathite and to say
And Zophar the Naamathite answers and says:
2 abundance word not to answer and if: surely no man lip: words to justify
“Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?
3 bluster your man be quiet and to mock and nothing be humiliated
Your boastings make men keep silent, You scorn, and none is causing blushing!
4 and to say pure teaching my and pure to be in/on/with eye your
And you say, My discourse [is] pure, And I have been clean in Your eyes.
5 and but who? to give: if only! god to speak: speak and to open lips his with you
And yet, O that God had spoken! And opens His lips with you.
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 declares to you secrets of wisdom, for counsel has foldings. And know that God forgets of your iniquity for you.
7 search god to find if: surely no till limit Almighty to find
Do you find out God by searching? To perfection find out the Mighty One?
8 height heaven what? to work deep from hell: Sheol what? to know (Sheol h7585)
Heights of the heavens—what [can] you do? Deeper than Sheol—what [can] you know? (Sheol h7585)
9 long from land: country/planet garment her and broad: wide from sea
Its measure [is] longer than earth, and broader than the sea.
10 if to pass and to shut and to gather and who? to return: return him
If He passes on, and shuts up, and assembles, Who then reverses it?
11 for he/she/it to know man vanity: false and to see: see evil: wickedness and not to understand
For He has known men of vanity, And He sees iniquity, And one does not consider [it]!
12 and man be hollow to encourage and colt wild donkey man to beget
And empty man is bold, And man is born [as] the colt of a wild donkey.
13 if you(m. s.) to establish: prepare heart your and to spread to(wards) him palm your
If you have prepared your heart, And have spread out your hands to Him,
14 if evil: wickedness in/on/with hand your to remove him and not to dwell in/on/with tent your injustice
If iniquity [is] in your hand, put it far off, And do not let perverseness dwell in your tents.
15 for then to lift: kindness face: kindness your from blemish and to be to pour: firm and not to fear
For then you lift up your face from blemish, And you have been firm, and do not fear.
16 for you(m. s.) trouble to forget like/as water to pass to remember
For you forget misery, As waters passed away you remember.
17 and from midday to arise: establish lifetime/world gloom like/as morning to be
And age rises above the noon, You fly—you are as the morning.
18 and to trust for there hope and to search to/for security to lie down: sleep
And you have trusted because there is hope, And searched—in confidence you lie down,
19 and to stretch and nothing to tremble and to beg face of your many
And you have rested, And none is causing trembling, And many have begged [at] your face;
20 and eye wicked to end: expend and refuge to perish from them and hope their exhalation soul: life
And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge has perished from them, And their hope [is] a breathing out of soul!”

< Job 11 >