Job 11 · Clearspring

Zophar Rebukes Job

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 [thee] ashamed?+ ⁴For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.+ ⁵But oh thatGod 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 thatGod passeth by [much] of thine iniquity!+ ⁷Canst thou by searching find outGod? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?+ ⁸[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 [man] doth not consider it;+ ¹²Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born [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 [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 [all] refuge shall vanish from them, and their hope [shall be] the breathing out of life.+

Zophar Rebukes Job

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