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“Should an abundance of words go unanswered,
or a man full of talk[a] be vindicated?[b]
Should your loose talk put people to silence?
And when you mock, shall no one put you to shame?[c]
For you say, ‘My teaching is pure,
and I am clean in your sight.’

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Footnotes

  1. Job 11:2 Literally “a man of lips”
  2. Job 11:2 Hebrew “should he be vindicated”
  3. Job 11:3 Literally “And you will mock there is not putting to shame”

“Are all these words to go unanswered?(A)
    Is this talker to be vindicated?(B)
Will your idle talk(C) reduce others to silence?
    Will no one rebuke you when you mock?(D)
You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless(E)
    and I am pure(F) in your sight.’

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