Job 11

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

Words in italics were supplied by the translators.

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