Job 11:1-11

1 Entonces respondió Zofar naamatita, y dijo:

2 ¿Quedará sin respuesta esa multitud de palabras, y será absuelto el que mucho habla?

3 ¿Harán tus jactancias callar a los hombres? ¿Harás escarnio sin que nadie te reprenda?

4 Pues has dicho: "Mi enseñanza es pura, y soy inocente ante tus ojos."

5 Mas, ¡quién diera que Dios hablara, abriera sus labios contra ti

6 y te declarara los secretos de la sabiduría!; porque la verdadera sabiduría tiene dos lados. Sabrías entonces que Dios olvida parte de tu iniquidad.

7 ¿Descubrirás tú las profundidades de Dios? ¿Descubrirás los límites del Todopoderoso?

8 Altos son como los cielos; ¿qué harás tú? Más profundos son que el Seol; ¿qué puedes tú saber?

9 Más extensa que la tierra es su dimensión, y más ancha que el mar.

10 Si El pasa, o encierra, o convoca una asamblea, ¿quién podrá estorbarle?

11 Porque El conoce a los hombres falsos, y ve la iniquidad sin investigar.

Job 11:1-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 11

In this chapter Zophar the Naamathite, Job's third friend, attacks him, and the with great acrimony and severity, and with much indecency; he charges him not only with loquacity, and vain babbling, but with lying, and with scoffing at God, and good men, Job 11:1-3; which he attempts to support by some things Job had said, misrepresented by him, Job 11:4; and wishes that God would take him in hand, and convince him of the wisdom of the divine proceedings with him, and of his lenity and mercy to him, Job 11:5,6; and then discourses of the unsearchableness of God in his counsels, and conduct; of his sovereignty, and of his power, and of the vanity and folly of men, Job 11:7-19; and as his friends before him, having insinuated that Job was guilty of some heinous sin, or sins, and especially of hypocrisy, advises him to repentance and reformation, and then it would be well with him; and he should enjoy much comfort, peace, and safety, even to old age, Job 11:13-19; and concludes it should go ill with the wicked man and the hypocrite, such as he suggests Job was, Job 11:20.