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Should your words of pride make men quiet? Should you make fun of truth and no one speak sharp words to you? For you say, ‘What I believe is pure. I am without fault in Your eyes.’ If only God would speak, and open His lips against you.

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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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Should your empty talk make men [a]hold their peace?
And when you mock, should no one rebuke you?
For you have said,
(A)‘My doctrine is pure,
And I am clean in your eyes.’
But oh, that God would speak,
And open His lips against you,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 11:3 be silent

Should your babble silence men,
    and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure,
    and I am clean in God’s eyes.’
But oh, that God would speak,
    and open his lips to you,

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