Job 11

1 Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and sayde,

2 “Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

Should not the multitude of wordes be answered? or should a great talker be iustified?

3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? and when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?

4 For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

For thou hast sayde, My doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes.

5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee!

6 that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

That he might shewe thee the secretes of wisedome, howe thou hast deserued double, according to right: know therefore that God hath forgotten thee for thine iniquitie.

7 “Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out ye Almighty to his perfection?

8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know? (Sheol h7585)

The heauens are hie, what canst thou doe? it is deeper then the hell, how canst thou know it? (Sheol h7585)

9 Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

The measure thereof is longer then the earth, and it is broader then the sea.

10 If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

If hee cut off and shut vp, or gather together, who can turne him backe?

11 For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

For hee knoweth vaine men, and seeth iniquitie, and him that vnderstandeth nothing.

12 An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

Yet vaine man would be wise, though man new borne is like a wilde asse colte.

13 “If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him:

14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

If iniquitie be in thine hand, put it farre away, and let no wickednesse dwell in thy Tabernacle.

15 Surely then you will lift up your face without spot. Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear,

The truely shalt thou lift vp thy face without spot, and shalt be stable, and shalt not feare.

16 for you will forget your misery. You will remember it like waters that have passed away.

But thou shalt forget thy miserie, and remember it as waters that are past.

17 Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.

Thine age also shall appeare more cleare then the noone day: thou shalt shine and bee as the morning.

18 You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety.

And thou shalt bee bolde, because there is hope: and thou shalt digge pittes, and shalt lye downe safely.

19 Also you will lie down, and no one will make you afraid. Yes, many will court your favor.

For when thou takest thy rest, none shall make thee afraide: yea, many shall make sute vnto thee.

20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

But the eyes of the wicked shall faile, and their refuge shall perish, and their hope shalbe sorow of minde.