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Zophar’s First Response to Job

11 Then[a] Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

“Should an abundance of words go unanswered,
or a man full of talk[b] be vindicated?[c]
Should your loose talk put people to silence?
And when you mock, shall no one put you to shame?[d]
For you say, ‘My teaching is pure,
and I am clean in your sight.’
But,[e] O that[f] God might speak,
and that he would open his lips to you,
and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom,
for insight has many sides.[g]
And know that God on your behalf[h] has forgotten some of[i] your guilt.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 11:1 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 11:2 Literally “a man of lips”
  3. Job 11:2 Hebrew “should he be vindicated”
  4. Job 11:3 Literally “And you will mock there is not putting to shame”
  5. Job 11:5 Hebrew “And but”
  6. Job 11:5 Literally “who shall give”
  7. Job 11:6 Literally “double to sound wisdom”
  8. Job 11:6 Literally “for you”
  9. Job 11:6 Literally “from”