Job - Chapter 11 | New International Version

  • 1. Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
  • 2. Are all these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated?
  • 3. Will your idle talk reduce men to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock?
  • 4. You say to God, 'My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in your sight.'
  • 5. Oh, how I wish that God would speak, that he would open his lips against you
  • 6. and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.
  • 7. Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
  • 8. They are higher than the heavens--what can you do? They are deeper than the depths of the grave--what can you know?
  • 9. Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
  • 10. If he comes along and confines you in prison and convenes a court, who can oppose him?
  • 11. Surely he recognizes deceitful men; and when he sees evil, does he not take note?
  • 12. But a witless man can no more become wise than a wild donkey's colt can be born a man.
  • 13. Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,
  • 14. if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,
  • 15. then you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and without fear.
  • 16. You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by.
  • 17. Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning.
  • 18. You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety.
  • 19. You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid, and many will court your favor.
  • 20. But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; their hope will become a dying gasp."
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