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class="text">and should one full of talk be vindicated?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Should your babble put others to silence,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and when you mock, shall no one shame you?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>For you say, ‘My conduct<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15183a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> is pure,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and I am clean in God’s<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15183b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> sight.’</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>But O that God would speak,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and open his lips to you,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">For wisdom is many-sided.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15185c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="text">Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>“Can you find out the deep things of God?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15186d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>It is higher than heaven<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15187e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>—what can you do?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Its measure is longer than the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and broader than the sea.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>If he passes through, and imprisons,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and assembles for judgment, who can hinder him?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>For he knows those who are worthless;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>But a stupid person will get understanding,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">when a wild ass is born human.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15191f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>“If you direct your heart rightly,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you will stretch out your hands toward him.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and do not let wickedness reside in your tents.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you will be secure, and will not fear.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>You will forget your misery;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you will remember it as waters that have passed away.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>And your life will be brighter than the noonday;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">its darkness will be like the morning.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>And you will have confidence, because there is hope;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you will be protected<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15197g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> and take your rest in safety.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>You will lie down, and no one will make you afraid;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">many will entreat your favor.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>But the eyes of the wicked will fail;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">all way of escape will be lost to them,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and their hope is to breathe their last.”</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 11:4">Job 11:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb <i>teaching</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 11:4">Job 11:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>your</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 11:6">Job 11:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 11:7">Job 11:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 11:8">Job 11:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>The heights of heaven</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 11:12">Job 11:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 11:18">Job 11:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>you will look around</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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