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Should your loose talk put people to silence?
And when you mock, shall no one put you to shame?[a]
For you say, ‘My teaching is pure,
and I am clean in your sight.’
But,[b] O that[c] God might speak,
and that he would open his lips to you,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 11:3 Literally “And you will mock there is not putting to shame”
  2. Job 11:5 Hebrew “And but”
  3. Job 11:5 Literally “who shall give”

Will your idle talk(A) reduce others to silence?
    Will no one rebuke you when you mock?(B)
You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless(C)
    and I am pure(D) in your sight.’
Oh, how I wish that God would speak,(E)
    that he would open his lips against you

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