Job 11 / 42
- 1Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
- 2"Are all these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated?
- 3Will your idle talk reduce men to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock?
- 4You say to God, 'My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in your sight.'
- 5Oh, how I wish that God would speak, that he would open his lips against you
- 6and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.
- 7"Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
- 8They are higher than the heavens-what can you do? They are deeper than the depths of the grave -what can you know?
- 9Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
- 10"If he comes along and confines you in prison and convenes a court, who can oppose him?
- 11Surely he recognizes deceitful men; and when he sees evil, does he not take note?
- 12But a witless man can no more become wise than a wild donkey's colt can be born a man.
- 13"Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,
- 14if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,
- 15then you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and without fear.
- 16You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by.
- 17Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning.
- 18You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety.
- 19You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid, and many will court your favor.
- 20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; their hope will become a dying gasp."