11 ¶ Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered and said,

² Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?

³ Should thy lies make men be silent? Shalt thou mock, and shall no man make thee ashamed?

⁴ For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean before thine eyes.

⁵ But oh, that God would speak and open his lips against thee

⁶ and that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For thou dost deserve double according to sound wisdom; and thou dost know that God has forgotten thee because of thine iniquity.

⁷ ¶ Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou come unto the perfection of the Almighty?

⁸ It is higher than the heavens; what canst thou do? It is deeper than Sheol; how canst thou know it?

⁹ The measure of it is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.

¹⁰ If he cuts off, or shuts up, or gathers together, then who can hinder him?

¹¹ For he knows the vain men; and he sees the iniquity; will he not then understand it?

¹² The vain man shall make himself understood, though man is born like a wild ass’s colt.

¹³ ¶ If thou would prepare thine heart and stretch out thine hands toward him;

¹⁴ if there is any iniquity in thy hand and thou dost put it far away and dost not consent that wickedness dwell in thy habitations,

¹⁵ then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; thou shalt be strongly established and shalt not fear;

¹⁶ and thou shalt forget thy misery and remember it as waters that passed away;

¹⁷ and thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

¹⁸ And thou shalt trust because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig and sleep in safety;

¹⁹ thou shalt lie down, and no one shall make thee afraid; and many shall make requests unto thee.

²⁰ But the eyes of the wicked shall consume themselves, and they shall have no refuge, and their hope shall be agony of the soul.