5.
Zophar's blind argument
11:1-20
Job 11
:1
11:1
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
Job 11
:2
11:2
Should a multitude of words not be answered?
And should a man of much talk be justified?
Job 11
:3
11:3
Shall your empty talk silence men?
And will you mock, and there be none to shame
you?
Job 11
:4
11:4
For you say, My doctrine is pure,
And I am clean in Your eyes.
Job 11
:5
11:5
But, oh, that God would speak
And open His lips to you,
Job 11
:6
11:6
And that He would tell you the secrets of wisdom!
For there are two sides to sound reason.
Know then that God has forgotten some of your iniquity.
Job 11
:7
11:7
Can you find out the
1adepths of God?
Can you find out the
blimit of the Almighty?
Job 11
:8
11:8
It is the height of heaven — what can you do?
It is deeper than Sheol — what can you know?
Job 11
:9
11:9
Its measure is longer than that of the earth
And broader than the sea.
Job 11
:10
11:10
If He passes by and imprisons
And summons an assembly, who can stop Him?
Job 11
:11
11:11
For He knows men of falsehood,
And He sees iniquity without considering
it.
Job 11
:12
11:12
But an
1empty-headed man acquires intelligence
When the
1foal of a wild ass is born as a man.
Job 11
:13
11:13
If you would set your heart right
And stretch your hands out to Him —
Job 11
:14
11:14
If there is iniquity in your hand, put it far away,
And do not let wrong dwell in your tents —
Job 11
:15
11:15
Then indeed you would lift up your face without blemish,
And you would be
asteadfast and would not be afraid.
Job 11
:16
11:16
For you will forget
your misery;
You will remember
it as waters that have passed away.
Job 11
:17
11:17
And your time
here will rise more
brightly than the noonday;
Dark though it may be, it will be like the morning.
Job 11
:18
11:18
And you will be secure, for there is hope;
And you will search about
and lie down in security.
Job 11
:19
11:19
Indeed you will lie down, and there will be none to terrify
you;
And many will entreat your favor.
Job 11
:20
11:20
But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And fleeing will be lost to them,
And their hope will be to breathe out
their life.
