< Job 11 >
1 Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,
and to answer Zophar [the] Naamathite and to say
2 “Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?
abundance word not to answer and if: surely no man lip: words to justify
3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?
bluster your man be quiet and to mock and nothing be humiliated
4 For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’
and to say pure teaching my and pure to be in/on/with eye your
5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,
and but who? to give: if only! god to speak: speak and to open lips his with you
6 that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
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
7 “Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
search god to find if: surely no till limit Almighty to find
8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know? (Sheol )
height heaven what? to work deep from hell: Sheol what? to know (Sheol )
9 Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
long from land: country/planet garment her and broad: wide from sea
10 If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
if to pass and to shut and to gather and who? to return: return him
11 For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.
for he/she/it to know man vanity: false and to see: see evil: wickedness and not to understand
12 An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.
and man be hollow to encourage and colt wild donkey man to beget
13 “If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands towards him.
if you(m. s.) to establish: prepare heart your and to spread to(wards) him palm your
14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
if evil: wickedness in/on/with hand your to remove him and not to dwell in/on/with tent your injustice
15 Surely then you will lift up your face without spot. Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear,
for then to lift: kindness face: kindness your from blemish and to be to pour: firm and not to fear
16 for you will forget your misery. You will remember it like waters that have passed away.
for you(m. s.) trouble to forget like/as water to pass to remember
17 Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.
and from midday to arise: establish lifetime/world gloom like/as morning to be
18 You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety.
and to trust for there hope and to search to/for security to lie down: sleep
19 Also you will lie down, and no one will make you afraid. Yes, many will court your favour.
and to stretch and nothing to tremble and to beg face of your many
20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”
and eye wicked to end: expend and refuge to perish from them and hope their exhalation soul: life