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You’ve said, “My teaching is pure,
    and I’m clean in God’s[a] eyes.”

Divine secrecy

But oh, that God would speak,
    open his lips against you
    and tell you secrets of wisdom;
        for sound insight has two sides.
Know that God lets some of your sin be forgotten.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 11:4 Or your

You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless(A)
    and I am pure(B) in your sight.’
Oh, how I wish that God would speak,(C)
    that he would open his lips against you
and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,(D)
    for true wisdom has two sides.
    Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.(E)

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