Job 11:6
Good News Translation
He would tell you there are many sides to wisdom; there are things too deep for human knowledge. God is punishing you less than you deserve.

New Revised Standard Version
and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For wisdom is many-sided. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

Contemporary English Version
and let you know that wisdom has many different sides. You would then discover that God has punished you less than you deserve.

New American Bible
And tell you the secrets of wisdom, for good sense has two sides; So you might learn that God overlooks some of your sinfulness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That he might shew thee the secrets of wisdom, and that his law is manifold, and thou mightest understand that he exacteth much less of thee, than thy iniquity deserveth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That he might shew thee the secrets of wisdom, and that his law is manifold, and thou mightest understand that he exacteth much less of thee, than thy iniquity deserveth.

shew thee

Job 15:8,11 Hast thou heard God's counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to thee? . . .

Job 28:28 And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.

Deuteronomy 29:29 Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Psalm 25:14 The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: and his covenant shall be made manifest to them.

Daniel 2:28,47 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth mysteries, who hath shewn to thee, O king Nabuchodonosor, what is to come to pass in the latter times. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these: . . .

Matthew 13:35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

Romans 16:25,26 Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret from eternity; . . .

1 Corinthians 2:9-11 But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard: neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him. . . .

Ephesians 3:5 Which in other generations was not known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit:

God exacteth

Ezra 9:13 And after all that is come upon us, for our most wicked deeds, and our great sin, seeing that thou our God hast saved us from our iniquity, and hast given us a deliverance as at this day,

Psalm 103:10 He hath not dealt with us according to our sins: nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

Psalm 106:43-46 Many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities. . . .

Lamentations 3:22 Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.

Context
Zophar Rebukes Job
5And I wish that God would speak with thee, and would open his lips to thee, 6That he might shew thee the secrets of wisdom, and that his law is manifold, and thou mightest understand that he exacteth much less of thee, than thy iniquity deserveth.7Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly?…
Cross References
Job 9:4
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?

Job 11:5
And I wish that God would speak with thee, and would open his lips to thee,

Job 12:13
With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.

Job 15:5
For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.

Job 22:5
And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities?

Job 11:5
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