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11:1  And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
11:2  Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man of much talk be justified?
11:3  Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make thee ashamed?
11:4  For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
11:5  But oh that +God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
11:6  And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, how that they are the double of what is realised; and know that +God passeth by much of thine iniquity!
11:7  Canst thou by searching find out +God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
11:8  It is as the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?
11:9  The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
11:10  If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?
11:11  For he knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when man doth not consider it;
11:12  Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass.
11:13  If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,
11:14  If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;
11:15  Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be stedfast and shalt not fear:
11:16  For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;
11:17  And life shall arise brighter than noonday; though thou be enshrouded in darkness, thou shalt be as the morning,
11:18  And thou shalt have confidence, because there shall be hope; and having searched about thee, thou shalt take rest in safety.
11:19  Yea, thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; and many shall seek thy favour.
11:20  But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and all refuge shall vanish from them, and their hope shall be the breathing out of life.