< Job 11 >

1 and to answer Zophar [the] Naamathite and to say
Then responded Zophar the Naamathite, and said: —
2 abundance word not to answer and if: surely no man lip: words to justify
Should, the multitude of words, not be answered? Or should, a man full of talk, be justified?
3 bluster your man be quiet and to mock and nothing be humiliated
Shall, thy pratings, cause men to hold their peace? When thou hast mocked, shall there be none to put thee to shame?
4 and to say pure teaching my and pure to be in/on/with eye your
Since thou hast said, Right is my doctrine, and pure am I in his eyes.
5 and but who? to give: if only! god to speak: speak and to open lips his with you
But, in very deed, oh that GOD would speak, that he would open his lips with thee:
6 and to tell to/for you secret wisdom for double to/for wisdom and to know for to forget to/for you god from iniquity: guilt your
That he would declare to thee the secrets of wisdom, for they are double to that which actually is, —Know then that GOD could bring into forgetfulness for thee, a portion of thine iniquity.
7 search god to find if: surely no till limit Almighty to find
The hidden depth of GOD canst thou discover? Or, unto the furthest limit of the Almighty, canst thou attain?
8 height heaven what? to work deep from hell: Sheol what? to know (Sheol h7585)
The heights of the heavens, what canst thou do? Depths deeper than hades, what canst thou know? (Sheol h7585)
9 long from land: country/planet garment her and broad: wide from sea
Longer than the earth, is the measure thereof, and broader than the sea.
10 if to pass and to shut and to gather and who? to return: return him
If he sweep on, or shut up, or call together, Who then shall hinder him?
11 for he/she/it to know man vanity: false and to see: see evil: wickedness and not to understand
For, he, knoweth men of falsity, and seeth iniquity, and him that doth not diligently consider.
12 and man be hollow to encourage and colt wild donkey man to beget
But, an empty person, will get sense, when, a wild ass’s colt, is born a man!
13 if you(m. s.) to establish: prepare heart your and to spread to(wards) him palm your
If, thou, hast prepared thy heart, and wilt spread forth, unto him, thy hands—
14 if evil: wickedness in/on/with hand your to remove him and not to dwell in/on/with tent your injustice
If, iniquity, be in thy hand, Put it far away, and let there not dwell in thy tents perversity,
15 for then to lift: kindness face: kindness your from blemish and to be to pour: firm and not to fear
Surely, then, shalt thou lift up thy face free from blemish, and shalt be established, and not fear.
16 for you(m. s.) trouble to forget like/as water to pass to remember
For, now, shalt thou forget, sorrow, Like waters passed away, shalt thou remember it.
17 and from midday to arise: establish lifetime/world gloom like/as morning to be
Above high noon, shall rise life’s continuance, Darkness, like a morning, shall appear,
18 and to trust for there hope and to search to/for security to lie down: sleep
And thou shalt he confident, that there is hope, and, when thou hast searched, securely shalt thou lie down;
19 and to stretch and nothing to tremble and to beg face of your many
And shalt rest, with none to put thee in terror, —and many shall entreat thy favour.
20 and eye wicked to end: expend and refuge to perish from them and hope their exhalation soul: life
But, the eyes of the lawless, shall fail, —and, place of refuge, shall have vanished from them, and, their hope, be a breathing out of life.

< Job 11 >