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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.

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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