Job 11:2-20 ▼

2 “Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?

3 Your boastings make men keep silent, || You scorn, and none is causing blushing!

4 And you say, My discourse [is] pure, || And I have been clean in Your eyes.

5 And yet, O that God had spoken! And opens His lips with you.

6 And declares to you secrets of wisdom, for counsel has foldings. And know that God forgets of your iniquity for you.

7 Do you find out God by searching? To perfection find out the Mighty One?

8 Heights of the heavens—what [can] you do? Deeper than Sheol—what [can] you know?

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

10 If He passes on, and shuts up, and assembles, || Who then reverses it?

11 For He has known men of vanity, || And He sees iniquity, || And one does not consider [it]!

12 And empty man is bold, || And man is born [as] the colt of a wild donkey.

13 If you have prepared your heart, || And have spread out your hands to Him,

14 If iniquity [is] in your hand, put it far off, || And do not let perverseness dwell in your tents.

15 For then you lift up your face from blemish, || And you have been firm, and do not fear.

16 For you forget misery, || As waters passed away you remember.

17 And age rises above the noon, || You fly—you are as the morning.

18 And you have trusted because there is hope, || And searched—in confidence you lie down,

19 And you have rested, || And none is causing trembling, || And many have begged [at] your face;

20 And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, || And refuge has perished from them, || And their hope [is] a breathing out of soul!”