Job 11:1
And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
Job 11:2
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man of much talk be justified?
Job 11:3
Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make thee ashamed?
Job 11:4
For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
Job 11:5
But oh that +God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
Job 11:6
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!
Job 11:7
Canst thou by searching find out +God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
Job 11:8
It is as the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?
Job 11:9
The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Job 11:10
If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?
Job 11:11
For he knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when man doth not consider it;
Job 11:12
Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass.
Job 11:13
If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,
Job 11:14
If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;
Job 11:15
Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be stedfast and shalt not fear:
Job 11:16
For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;
Job 11:17
And life shall arise brighter than noonday; though thou be enshrouded in darkness, thou shalt be as the morning,
Job 11:18
And thou shalt have confidence, because there shall be hope; and having searched about thee , thou shalt take rest in safety.
Job 11:19
Yea, thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; and many shall seek thy favour.
Job 11:20
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.