Job 11

¹ And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: —

² Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?

³ Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!

⁴ And thou sayest, ‘Pure [is] my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.’

⁵ And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.

⁶ And declare to thee secrets of wisdom, For counsel hath foldings. And know thou that God forgetteth for thee, [Some] of thine iniquity.

⁷ By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?

⁸ Heights of the heavens! — what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! — what knowest thou?

⁹ Longer than earth [is] its measure, And broader than the sea.

¹⁰ If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?

¹¹ For he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity, And one doth not consider [it]!

¹² And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.

¹³ If thou — thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,

¹⁴ If iniquity [is] in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.

¹⁵ For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not.

¹⁶ For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.

¹⁷ And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest — as the morning thou art.

¹⁸ And thou hast trusted because their is hope, And searched — in confidence thou liest down,

¹⁹ And thou hast rested, And none is causing trembling, And many have entreated thy face;

²⁰ And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope [is] a breathing out of soul!