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| 11:1 |
And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --
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| 11:2 |
Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?
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| 11:3 |
Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!
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| 11:4 |
And thou sayest, `Pure [is] my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'
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| 11:5 |
And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.
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| 11:6 |
And declare to thee secrets of wisdom, For counsel hath foldings. And know thou that God forgetteth for thee, [Some] of thine iniquity.
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| 11:7 |
By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?
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| 11:8 |
Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou?
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| 11:9 |
Longer than earth [is] its measure, And broader than the sea.
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| 11:10 |
If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?
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| 11:11 |
For he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity, And one doth not consider [it]!
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| 11:12 |
And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.
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| 11:13 |
If thou -- thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,
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| 11:14 |
If iniquity [is] in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.
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| 11:15 |
For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not.
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| 11:16 |
For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.
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| 11:17 |
And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest -- as the morning thou art.
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| 11:18 |
And thou hast trusted because their is hope, And searched -- in confidence thou liest down,
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| 11:19 |
And thou hast rested, And none is causing trembling, And many have entreated thy face;
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| 11:20 |
And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope [is] a breathing out of soul!
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