Job 11:1-9 ▼

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

2 Should this abundance of words go unanswered and such a talker be acquitted?

3 Should your babbling put others to silence, so that you can keep on ridiculing with no one to humiliate you?

4 You have said, “My teaching is sound, and I am pure in your sight.”

5 But if only God would speak and open his lips against you!

6 He would show you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God has chosen to overlook some of your iniquity.

7 Can you fathom the depths of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?

8 They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

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