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11:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and sayde,
11:2 Should not the multitude of wordes be answered? or should a great talker be iustified?
11:3 Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? and when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?
11:4 For thou hast sayde, My doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes.
11:5 But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee!
11:6 That he might shewe thee the secretes of wisedome, howe thou hast deserued double, according to right: know therefore that God hath forgotten thee for thine iniquitie.
11:7 Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out ye Almighty to his perfection?
11:8 The heauens are hie, what canst thou doe? it is deeper then the hell, how canst thou know it?
11:9 The measure thereof is longer then the earth, and it is broader then the sea.
11:10 If hee cut off and shut vp, or gather together, who can turne him backe?
11:11 For hee knoweth vaine men, and seeth iniquitie, and him that vnderstandeth nothing.
11:12 Yet vaine man would be wise, though man new borne is like a wilde asse colte.
11:13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him:
11:14 If iniquitie be in thine hand, put it farre away, and let no wickednesse dwell in thy Tabernacle.
11:15 The truely shalt thou lift vp thy face without spot, and shalt be stable, and shalt not feare.
11:16 But thou shalt forget thy miserie, and remember it as waters that are past.
11:17 Thine age also shall appeare more cleare then the noone day: thou shalt shine and bee as the morning.
11:18 And thou shalt bee bolde, because there is hope: and thou shalt digge pittes, and shalt lye downe safely.
11:19 For when thou takest thy rest, none shall make thee afraide: yea, many shall make sute vnto thee.
11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall faile, and their refuge shall perish, and their hope shalbe sorow of minde.