| Chapter 11 |
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And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said, |
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Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man of much talk be justified? |
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Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make thee ashamed? |
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For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. |
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But oh that +God would speak, and open his lips against thee; |
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And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, how that they are the double of what is realised; and know that +God passeth by much of thine iniquity! |
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Canst thou by searching find out +God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection? |
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It is as the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know? |
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The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. |
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If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him? |
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For he knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when man doth not consider it; |
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Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass. |
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If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him, |
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If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents; |
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Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be stedfast and shalt not fear: |
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For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it; |
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And life shall arise brighter than noonday; though thou be enshrouded in darkness, thou shalt be as the morning, |
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And thou shalt have confidence, because there shall be hope; and having searched about thee, thou shalt take rest in safety. |
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Yea, thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; and many shall seek thy favour. |
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But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and all refuge shall vanish from them, and their hope shall be the breathing out of life. |