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¹ And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --² Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?³ Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!⁴ And thou sayest, `Pure [is] my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'⁵ And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.⁶ And declare to thee secrets of wisdom, For counsel hath foldings. And know thou that God forgetteth for thee, [Some] of thine iniquity.

⁷ By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?⁸ Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou?⁹ Longer than earth [is] its measure, And broader than the sea.¹⁰ If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?¹¹ For he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity, And one doth not consider [it]!¹² And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.

¹³ If thou -- thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,¹⁴ If iniquity [is] in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.¹⁵ For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not.¹⁶ For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.¹⁷ And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest -- as the morning thou art.¹⁸ And thou hast trusted because their is hope, And searched -- in confidence thou liest down,¹⁹ And thou hast rested, And none is causing trembling, And many have entreated thy face;²⁰ And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope [is] a breathing out of soul!