Job Chapter 11 Young's Literal Translation

Job 11:1

And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --

Job 11:2

Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?

Job 11:3

Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!

Job 11:4

And thou sayest, `Pure `is' my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'

Job 11:5

And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.

Job 11:6

And declare to thee secrets of wisdom, For counsel hath foldings. And know thou that God forgetteth for thee, `Some' of thine iniquity.

Job 11:7

By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?

Job 11:8

Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou?

Job 11:9

Longer than earth `is' its measure, And broader than the sea.

Job 11:10

If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?

Job 11:11

For he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity, And one doth not consider `it'!

Job 11:12

And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.

Job 11:13

If thou -- thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,

Job 11:14

If iniquity `is' in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.

Job 11:15

For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not.

Job 11:16

For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.

Job 11:17

And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest -- as the morning thou art.

Job 11:18

And thou hast trusted because their is hope, And searched -- in confidence thou liest down,

Job 11:19

And thou hast rested, And none is causing trembling, And many have entreated thy face;

Job 11:20

And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope `is' a breathing out of soul!