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  • 1. And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
  • 2. Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man of much talk be justified?
  • 3. Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make [thee] ashamed?
  • 4. For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
  • 5. But oh that +God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
  • 6. 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!
  • 7. Canst thou by searching find out +God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
  • 8. [It is as] the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?
  • 9. The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
  • 10. If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?
  • 11. For he knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when [man] doth not consider it;
  • 12. Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born [like] the foal of a wild ass.
  • 13. If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,
  • 14. If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;
  • 15. Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be stedfast and shalt not fear:
  • 16. For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;
  • 17. And life shall arise brighter than noonday; though thou be enshrouded in darkness, thou shalt be as the morning,
  • 18. And thou shalt have confidence, because there shall be hope; and having searched about [thee], thou shalt take rest in safety.
  • 19. Yea, thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; and many shall seek thy favour.
  • 20. 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.