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Job 11 (AMP)

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¹ THEN ZOPHAR the Naamathite replied, ² Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be pronounced free from guilt or blame? ³ Should your boastings and babble make men keep silent? And when you mock and scoff, shall no man make you ashamed? ⁴ For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in eyes. ⁵ But oh, that God would speak, and open His lips against you, ⁶ And that He would show you the secrets of wisdom! For He is manifold in understanding! Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your guilt and iniquity . ⁷ Can you find out the deep things of God, or can you by searching find out the limits of the Almighty ? ⁸ His wisdom is as high as the heights of heaven! What can you do? It is deeper than Sheol (the place of the dead)! What can you know? ⁹ Longer in measure is it than the earth, and broader than the sea. ¹⁰ If sweeps in and arrests and calls into judgment, who can hinder Him? ¹¹ For He recognizes and knows hollow, wicked, and useless men (men of falsehood); when He sees iniquity, will He not consider it? ¹² But a stupid man will get wisdom when a wild donkey's colt is born a man . ¹³ If you set your heart aright and stretch out your hands to , ¹⁴ If you put sin out of your hand and far away from you and let not evil dwell in your tents; ¹⁵ Then can you lift up your face to Him without stain ; yes, you shall be steadfast and secure; you shall not fear. ¹⁶ For you shall forget your misery; you shall remember it as waters that pass away. ¹⁷ And life shall be clearer than the noonday and rise above it; though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning. ¹⁸ And you shall be secure and feel confident because there is hope; yes, you shall search about you, and you shall take your rest in safety. ¹⁹ You shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; yes, many shall sue for your favor. ²⁰ But the eyes of the wicked shall look in vain, and they shall not escape ; and their hope shall be to give up the ghost.