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href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Will your idle talk reduce others to silence?</p><p class="line2">Will no one rebuke you when you mock?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless</p><p class="line2">and I am pure in your sight.’</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Oh, how I wish that God would speak,</p><p class="line2">that he would open his lips against you</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,</p><p class="line2">for true wisdom has two sides.</p><p class="line2">Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Can you fathom the mysteries of God?</p><p class="line2">Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They are higher than the heavens above—what can you do?</p><p class="line2">They are deeper than the depths below—what can you know?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Their measure is longer than the earth</p><p class="line2">and wider than the sea.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“If he comes along and confines you in prison</p><p class="line2">and convenes a court, who can oppose him?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Surely he recognizes deceivers;</p><p class="line2">and when he sees evil, does he not take note?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But the witless can no more become wise</p><p class="line2">than a wild donkey’s colt can be born human. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or wild donkey can be born tame">a</a></sup></span> </p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Yet if you devote your heart to him</p><p class="line2">and stretch out your hands to him,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>if you put away the sin that is in your hand</p><p class="line2">and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>then, free of fault, you will lift up your face;</p><p class="line2">you will stand firm and without fear.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>You will surely forget your trouble,</p><p class="line2">recalling it only as waters gone by.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Life will be brighter than noonday,</p><p class="line2">and darkness will become like morning.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>You will be secure, because there is hope;</p><p class="line2">you will look about you and take your rest in safety.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid,</p><p class="line2">and many will court your favor.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But the eyes of the wicked will fail,</p><p class="line2">and escape will elude them;</p><p 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