Hiob 11

1. ¹And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --
2. ²Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?
3. ³Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!
4. ⁴And thou sayest, `Pure `is' my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'
5. ⁵And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.
6. ⁶And declare to thee secrets of wisdom, For counsel hath foldings. And know thou that God forgetteth for thee, `Some' of thine iniquity.
7. ⁷By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?
8. ⁸Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou?
9. ⁹Longer than earth `is' its measure, And broader than the sea.
10. ¹⁰If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?
11. ¹¹For he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity, And one doth not consider `it'!
12. ¹²And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.
13. ¹³If thou -- thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,
14. ¹⁴If iniquity `is' in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.
15. ¹⁵For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not.
16. ¹⁶For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.
17. ¹⁷And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest -- as the morning thou art.
18. ¹⁸And thou hast trusted because their is hope, And searched -- in confidence thou liest down,
19. ¹⁹And thou hast rested, And none is causing trembling, And many have entreated thy face;
20. ²⁰And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope `is' a breathing out of soul!

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