Geneva1599 - Job - 11

11:1  Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and sayde,

11:2  Should not the multitude of wordes be answered? or should a great talker be iustified?

11:3  Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? and when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?

11:4  For thou hast sayde, My doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes.

11:5  But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee!

11:6  That he might shewe thee the secretes of wisedome, howe thou hast deserued double, according to right: know therefore that God hath forgotten thee for thine iniquitie.

11:7  Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out ye Almighty to his perfection?

11:8  The heauens are hie, what canst thou doe? it is deeper then the hell, how canst thou know it?

11:9  The measure thereof is longer then the earth, and it is broader then the sea.

11:10  If hee cut off and shut vp, or gather together, who can turne him backe?

11:11  For hee knoweth vaine men, and seeth iniquitie, and him that vnderstandeth nothing.

11:12  Yet vaine man would be wise, though man new borne is like a wilde asse colte.

11:13  If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him:

11:14  If iniquitie be in thine hand, put it farre away, and let no wickednesse dwell in thy Tabernacle.

11:15  The truely shalt thou lift vp thy face without spot, and shalt be stable, and shalt not feare.

11:16  But thou shalt forget thy miserie, and remember it as waters that are past.

11:17  Thine age also shall appeare more cleare then the noone day: thou shalt shine and bee as the morning.

11:18  And thou shalt bee bolde, because there is hope: and thou shalt digge pittes, and shalt lye downe safely.

11:19  For when thou takest thy rest, none shall make thee afraide: yea, many shall make sute vnto thee.

11:20  But the eyes of the wicked shall faile, and their refuge shall perish, and their hope shalbe sorow of minde.