Jubilee2000 - Job - 11

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

11:2  Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?

11:3  Should thy lies make men be silent? Shalt thou mock, and shall no man make thee ashamed?

11:4  For thou hast said, My doctrine [is] pure, and I am clean before thine eyes.

11:5  But oh, that God would speak and open his lips against thee

11:6  and that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For thou dost deserve double according to sound wisdom; and thou dost know that God has forgotten thee because of thine iniquity.

11:7  Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou come unto the perfection of the Almighty?

11:8  It is higher than the heavens; what canst thou do? It is deeper than Sheol; how canst thou know it?

11:9  The measure of it [is] longer than the earth and broader than the sea.

11:10  If he cuts off, or shuts up, or gathers together, then who can hinder him?

11:11  For he knows the vain men; and he sees the iniquity; will he not then understand [it]?

11:12  The vain man shall make himself understood, though man is born [like] a wild ass's colt.

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

11:14  if there is any iniquity in thy hand and thou dost put it far away and dost not consent that wickedness dwell in thy habitations,

11:15  then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; thou shalt be strongly established and shalt not fear;

11:16  and thou shalt forget [thy] misery [and] remember [it] as waters that passed away;

11:17  and [thine] age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

11:18  And thou shalt trust because there is hope; [yea], thou shalt dig and sleep in safety;

11:19  thou shalt lie down, and no one shall make [thee] afraid; and many shall make requests unto thee.

11:20  But the eyes of the wicked shall consume themselves, and they shall have no refuge, and their hope [shall be] agony of the soul.: