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title="Job 10">◄</a> Job 11 <a href="../job/12.htm" title="Job 12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/11.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Zophar Speaks: You Deserve Worse</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Should a multitude of words go unanswered,</span><br /><span class="indent">and a man full of talk be judged right?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Should your babble silence men,</span><br /><span class="indent">and when you mock, shall no one shame you?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I am clean in God’s<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew your">a</a></sup></span> eyes.’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But oh, that God would speak</span><br /><span class="indent">and open his lips to you,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom!</span><br /><span class="indent">For he is manifold in understanding.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain">b</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="ln-group">Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Can you find out the deep things of God?</span><br /><span class="indent">Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">It is higher than heaven<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew The heights of heaven">c</a></sup></span>—what can you do?</span><br /><span class="indent">Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Its measure is longer than the earth</span><br /><span class="indent">and broader than the sea.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If he passes through and imprisons</span><br /><span class="indent">and summons the court, who can turn him back?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For he knows worthless men;</span><br /><span class="indent">when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But a stupid man will get understanding</span><br /><span class="indent">when a wild donkey’s colt is born a man!</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“If you prepare your heart,</span><br /><span class="indent">you will stretch out your hands toward him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away,</span><br /><span class="indent">and let not injustice dwell in your tents.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish;</span><br /><span class="indent">you will be secure and will not fear.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You will forget your misery;</span><br /><span class="indent">you will remember it as waters that have passed away.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And your life will be brighter than the noonday;</span><br /><span class="indent">its darkness will be like the morning.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And you will feel secure, because there is hope;</span><br /><span class="indent">you will look around and take your rest in security.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You will lie down, and none will make you afraid;</span><br /><span class="indent">many will court your favor.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But the eyes of the wicked will fail;</span><br /><span class="indent">all way of escape will be lost to them,</span><br /><span class="indent">and their hope is to breathe their last.”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Hebrew <i>your</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Hebrew <i>The heights of heaven</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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