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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Are all these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4You say to God, 'My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in your sight.' |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Oh, how I wish that God would speak, that he would open his lips against you |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8They are higher than the heavens above--what can you do? They are deeper than the depths below--what can you know? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"If he comes along and confines you in prison and convenes a court, who can oppose him? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Surely he recognizes deceivers; and when he sees evil, does he not take note? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But the witless can no more become wise than a wild donkey's colt can be born human. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15then, free of fault, you will lift up your face; you will stand firm and without fear. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid, and many will court your favor. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; their hope will become a dying gasp." |
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