Zophar Rebukes Job 1 ULT And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
2 ULT “The multitude of words, will it not be answered? Or if a man of lips will be justified? BSB BSB: “Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?
3 ULT Will your boastings make people silent? Or will you mock and no one{ is} shaming? BSB BSB: Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
4 ULT For you have said,‘My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.’ BSB BSB: You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’
5 ULT But who will give God to speak and open his lips against you BSB BSB: But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,
6 ULT and declare to you the secrets of wisdom? For{ it is} double to understanding. And know that God is forgetting for you{ some} of your iniquity. BSB BSB: and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
7 ULT Will you find God by searching? If unto perfection you will find the Almighty? BSB BSB: Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
8 ULT The height of the heavens! What will you do? Deeper than Sheol! What will you know? BSB BSB: They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
9 ULT Its measure{ is} longer than the earth and wider than the sea. BSB BSB: Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
10 ULT If he comes and imprisons and assembles, then who will turn him back? BSB BSB: If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
11 ULT For he knows people of worthlessness, and will he see iniquity and not notice it? BSB BSB: Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?
12 ULT But an empty man will get a heart and the colt of a wild donkey will be born to a man. BSB BSB: But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
13 ULT If you prepare your heart and stretch out your hands to him; BSB BSB: As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
14 ULT if iniquity{ is} in your hand, put it far away, and do not let unrighteousness dwell in your tents; BSB BSB: if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
15 ULT for then you will lift your face without blemish, and you will be established and you will not fear; BSB BSB: then indeed you will lift up your face without blemish; you will stand firm and unafraid.
16 ULT for you will forget trouble; as waters pass by, you will remember{ it}. BSB BSB: For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.
17 ULT And life will arise more than noon; darkness will become like dawn. BSB BSB: Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
18 ULT You will be confident, because there is hope, and you will look around, you will lie down in safety. BSB BSB: You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.
19 ULT Yes, you will recline and no one{ will be} making{ you} afraid, and many will stroke your face. BSB BSB: You will lie down without fear, and many will court your favor.
20 ULT But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will perish from them, and their hope{ will be} an expiration of breath.” BSB BSB: But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
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