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Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
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And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --
2 “Are all these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated?
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Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?
3 Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock?
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Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!
4 You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in your sight.’
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And thou sayest, `Pure [is] my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'
5 Oh, how I wish that God would speak, that he would open his lips against you
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And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.
6 and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.
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And declare to thee secrets of wisdom, For counsel hath foldings. And know thou that God forgetteth for thee, [Some] of thine iniquity.
7 “Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
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By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?
8 They are higher than the heavens above—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths below—what can you know?
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Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou?
9 Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
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Longer than earth [is] its measure, And broader than the sea.
10 “If he comes along and confines you in prison and convenes a court, who can oppose him?
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If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?
11 Surely he recognizes deceivers; and when he sees evil, does he not take note?
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For he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity, And one doth not consider [it]!
12 But the witless can no more become wise than a wild donkey’s colt can be born human.
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And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.
13 “Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,
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If thou -- thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,
14 if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,
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If iniquity [is] in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.
15 then, free of fault, you will lift up your face; you will stand firm and without fear.
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For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not.
16 You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by.
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For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.
17 Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning.
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And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest -- as the morning thou art.
18 You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety.
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And thou hast trusted because their is hope, And searched -- in confidence thou liest down,
19 You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid, and many will court your favor.
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And thou hast rested, And none is causing trembling, And many have entreated thy face;
20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; their hope will become a dying gasp.”
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And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope [is] a breathing out of soul!
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