Job 11:1-9 ▼

1 Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

2 “Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

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 you,

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 “Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

9 Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.