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Shall your babblings keep others silent,
    and shall you deride and no one give rebuke?
Shall you say: “My teaching is pure,
    and I am clean in your sight”?
But oh, that God would speak,[a]
    and open his lips against you,

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Footnotes

  1. 11:5 This is another of many ironies (e.g., cf. 11:16–19) that occur throughout the book. Zophar does not know that God will speak (chaps. 38–42), but contrary to what he thinks.