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| [1]And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: -- |
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| [2]Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified? |
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| [3]Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing! |
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| [4]And thou sayest, `Pure [is] my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.' |
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| [5]And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee. |
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| [6]And declare to thee secrets of wisdom, For counsel hath foldings. And know thou that God forgetteth for thee, [Some] of thine iniquity. |
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| [7]By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One? |
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| [8]Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou? |
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| [9]Longer than earth [is] its measure, And broader than the sea. |
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| [10]If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it? |
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| [11]For he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity, And one doth not consider [it]! |
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| [12]And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born. |
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| [13]If thou -- thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands, |
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| [14]If iniquity [is] in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents. |
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| [15]For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not. |
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| [16]For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest. |
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| [17]And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest -- as the morning thou art. |
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| [18]And thou hast trusted because their is hope, And searched -- in confidence thou liest down, |
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| [19]And thou hast rested, And none is causing trembling, And many have entreated thy face; |
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| [20]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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