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Job 11 :: New International Version (NIV)

Zophar

Job 11:1

Job 11:1Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

Job 11:2

Job 11:2“Are all these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated?

Job 11:3

Job 11:3Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock?

Job 11:4

Job 11:4You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in your sight.’

Job 11:5

Job 11:5Oh, how I wish that God would speak, that he would open his lips against you

Job 11:6

Job 11:6and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.

Job 11:7

Job 11:7“Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

Job 11:8

Job 11:8They are higher than the heavens above—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths below—what can you know?

Job 11:9

Job 11:9Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.

Job 11:10

Job 11:10“If he comes along and confines you in prison and convenes a court, who can oppose him?

Job 11:11

Job 11:11Surely he recognizes deceivers; and when he sees evil, does he not take note?

Job 11:12

Job 11:12But the witless can no more become wise than a wild donkey’s colt can be born human.[fn]

Job 11:13

Job 11:13“Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,

Job 11:14

Job 11:14if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,

Job 11:15

Job 11:15then, free of fault, you will lift up your face; you will stand firm and without fear.

Job 11:16

Job 11:16You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by.

Job 11:17

Job 11:17Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning.

Job 11:18

Job 11:18You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety.

Job 11:19

Job 11:19You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid, and many will court your favor.

Job 11:20

Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; their hope will become a dying gasp.”
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Or wild donkey can be born tame
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