Job 11

And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said, 2 “The multitude of words, will it not be answered? Or if a man of lips will be justified? 3 Will your boastings make people silent? Or will you mock and no one {is} shaming? \* 4 For you have said, ‘My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.’ 5 But who will give God to speak and open his lips against you 6 and declare to you the secrets of wisdom? For {it is} double to understanding. And know that God is forgetting for you {some} of your iniquity. \* 7 Will you find God by searching? If unto perfection you will find the Almighty? 8 The height of the heavens! What will you do? Deeper than Sheol! What will you know? 9 Its measure {is} longer than the earth and wider than the sea. \* 10 If he comes and imprisons and assembles, then who will turn him back? 11 For he knows people of worthlessness, and will he see iniquity and not notice it? 12 But an empty man will get a heart and the colt of a wild donkey will be born to a man. \* 13 If you prepare your heart and stretch out your hands to him; 14 if iniquity {is} in your hand, put it far away, and do not let unrighteousness dwell in your tents; \* 15 for then you will lift your face without blemish, and you will be established and you will not fear; 16 for you will forget trouble; as waters pass by, you will remember {it}. 17 And life will arise more than noon; darkness will become like dawn. \* 18 You will be confident, because there is hope, and you will look around, you will lie down in safety. 19 Yes, you will recline and no one {will be} making {you} afraid, and many will stroke your face. \* 20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will perish from them, and their hope {will be} an expiration of breath.” \*