✧1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, ✧2Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? ✧3Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? ✧4For thou hast said, My doctrine [is] pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. ✧5But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; ✧6And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that [they are] double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee [less] than thine iniquity [deserveth]. ✧7Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? ✧8[It is] as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? ✧
King James Version (KJV). King James Version (1769 text). Public domain outside the United Kingdom.
9
The measure thereof [is] longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
✧10If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
✧11For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider [it]?
✧12For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild ass’s colt.
✧13If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
✧14If iniquity [be] in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
✧15For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: