Job 11 Darby Translation
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1 And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
1 Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,
2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man of much talk be justified?
2 “Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?
3 Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make [thee] ashamed?
3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?
4 For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
4 For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’
5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,
6 And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, how that they are the double of what is realised; and know that God passeth by [much] of thine iniquity!
6 that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
7 “Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
8 [It is as] the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?
8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?
9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
9 Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
10 If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?
10 If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
11 For he knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when [man] doth not consider it;
11 For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.
12 Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born [like] the foal of a wild ass.
12 An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.
13 If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,
13 “If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
14 If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;
14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
15 Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be stedfast and shalt not fear:
15 Surely then you will lift up your face without spot. Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear,
16 For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;
16 for you will forget your misery. You will remember it like waters that have passed away.
17 And life shall arise brighter than noonday; though thou be enshrouded in darkness, thou shalt be as the morning,
17 Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.
18 And thou shalt have confidence, because there shall be hope; and having searched about [thee], thou shalt take rest in safety.
18 You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety.
19 Yea, thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; and many shall seek thy favour.
19 Also you will lie down, and no one will make you afraid. Yes, many will court your favor.
20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and [all] refuge shall vanish from them, and their hope [shall be] the breathing out of life.
20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”
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Zophar
Zophar the Naamathite, one of Job's three friends, who answered Job in the dialogues and did what the LORD told him after the LORD's rebuke.
Cited in the guide: Job 2:11; Job 11:1; Job 20:1
Cross references (20)
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- 1 Job 2:11; Job 20:1
- 2 James 1:19; Proverbs 10:19; Job 18:2; Job 8:2; Acts 17:18
- 3 Job 17:2; Jude 18; Job 21:3; Psalm 83:16; Job 15:2–3
- 4 Job 10:7; Job 6:10; 1 Peter 3:15; Job 34:5–6; Job 35:2
- 5 Job 38:1–2; Job 31:35; Job 23:3–7; Job 40:1–5; Job 42:7
- 6 Ezra 9:13; Lamentations 3:22; Daniel 2:28; Ephesians 3:5; Matthew 13:35
- 7 Romans 11:33; Psalm 145:3; Ecclesiastes 3:11; Isaiah 40:28; Job 5:9
- 8 Job 22:12; Isaiah 55:9; Psalm 139:6–8; Psalm 148:13; Job 26:6
- 9 Psalm 139:9–10; Job 28:24–25; Psalm 65:5–8
- 10 Job 9:12–13; Job 12:14; Revelation 3:7; Isaiah 41:27; Daniel 4:35
- 11 Psalm 10:14; Hebrews 4:13; Revelation 2:23; John 2:24–25; Psalm 10:11
- 12 Job 39:5–8; James 2:20; Psalm 73:22; Jeremiah 2:24; James 3:13–17
- 13 Psalm 143:6; Psalm 88:9; Psalm 78:8; 1 Samuel 7:3; Job 8:5–6
- 14 Job 22:23; James 4:8; Job 4:7; Psalm 101:2; Isaiah 1:15
- 15 Job 22:26; 1 John 3:19–22; 1 John 2:28; 1 Timothy 2:8; Psalm 27:1
- 16 Isaiah 65:16; Ecclesiastes 5:20; Isaiah 54:9; John 16:21; Isaiah 54:4
- 17 Isaiah 58:8–10; Psalm 37:6; Proverbs 4:18; Zechariah 14:6–7; Hosea 6:3
- 18 Proverbs 3:24–26; Psalm 3:5; Psalm 43:5; Psalm 4:8; Leviticus 26:5–6
- 19 Isaiah 60:14; Isaiah 45:14; Psalm 45:12; Leviticus 26:6; Revelation 3:9
- 20 Deuteronomy 28:65; Job 31:16; Job 17:5; Job 8:13–14; Luke 16:23–26
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