AB - Job - 11

11:1  Then Zophar the Minaean answered and said,

11:2  He that speaks much, should also hear on the other side: or does the fluent speaker think himself to be righteous? Blessed is the short-lived offspring of woman.

11:3  Be not a speaker of many words, for is there none to answer you?

11:4  For say not, I am pure in my works, and blameless before Him.

11:5  But oh that the Lord would speak to you, and open His lips to you!

11:6  Then shall He declare to you the power of wisdom, for it shall be double of that which is with you; and then shall you know, that a just recompense of your sins has come to you from the Lord.

11:7  Will you find out the traces of the Lord? Or have you come to the end of that which the Almighty has made?

11:8  Heaven is high, and what will you do? And there are deeper things than those in hell; what do you know?

11:9  Or longer than the measure of the earth, or the breadth of the sea.

11:10  And if He should overthrow all things, who will say to Him, What have You done?

11:11  For He knows the works of transgressors, and when He sees wickedness, He will not overlook it.

11:12  But man vainly buoys himself up with words, and a mortal born of woman is like a donkey in the desert.

11:13  For if you have made your heart pure, and lifted up your hands towards Him;

11:14  if there is any iniquity in your hands, put if far from you, and let not unrighteousness lodge in your habitation.

11:15  For thus shall your countenance shine again as pure water; and you shall divest yourself of uncleanness, and shall not fear.

11:16  And you shall forget trouble, as a wave that has passed by; and you shall not be scared.

11:17  And your prayer shall be as the morning star, and life shall arise to you as from the noonday.

11:18  And you shall be confident, because you have hope, and peace shall dawn to you from out of anxiety and care.

11:19  For you shall be at ease, and there shall be no one to fight against you, and many shall charge, and make supplication to you.

11:20  But safety shall fail them, for their hope is destruction, and the eyes of the ungodly shall waste away.