Job 11
Zophar rebukes Job, saying that he has been speaking too much and needs to listen, and that he should not think he is justified just because he has spoken. Zophar wishes that God would speak to Job and reveal to him the secrets of wisdom, and that Job would understand how much less he requires of him than his iniquity deserves. Zophar tells Job that if he would send away his iniquity and not let injustice remain, he would be able to lift up his face without blemish and be steadfast and unafraid.
But Zophar the Naamathite, responding, saidWill he who speaks much, not also listen? Or will a talkative man be justifiedWill men be silent only for you? And when you have mocked others, will no one refute youFor you said: "My word is pure, and I am clean in your sight.Yet I wish that God would speak with you, and would open his lips to youso that he might reveal to you the secrets of wisdom, and how intricate his law is, and that you would understand how much less he requires of you than your iniquity deservesBy chance, will you comprehend the footsteps of God and reach all the way to the perfection of the AlmightyHe is higher than heaven, and what will you do? He is deeper than hell, but how will you knowHis measure is longer than the earth and wider than the seaIf he overturns all things, or packs them together, who will contradict himFor he knows the vanity of men, and when he sees iniquity, does he not evaluate itA vain man is lifted up in arrogance, and he thinks that he is born free like a wild ass’s coltBut you have fortified your heart and extended your hands to himIf you would send away from you the iniquity that is in your hand, and not let injustice remain in your tabernaclethen you would be able to lift up your face without blemish, and you would be steadfast and unafraidMisery, likewise, you would forget, or would remember only like waters that have passed byAnd brightness, like that of midday, will rise upon you until evening, and when you would think yourself consumed, you will rise up like the morning starAnd, when hope has been set before you, you will have faith, and, when buried, you will sleep secureYou will rest, and there will be nothing to make you afraid, and many will make requests before your faceBut the eyes of the impious will fade away, and the path to escape will perish before them, for the abomination of the soul is their hope
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