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Now Zophar the Naamathite replied and said,
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"Should not a multitude of words be answered, or should a talkative person be accounted right?
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Your fabrications may silence men, and you mock with no one to embarrass you.
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You said, 'My doctrine is pure, and I was clean in your eyes.'
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But, would that God would speak and open His lips with you,
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and tell you mysteries of wisdom for the wisdom is double, and know that God lends you of your iniquity.
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Can you find out the mystery of God; can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
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[In] the heights of heaven, what will you do? Deeper than the grave, what do you know?
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Longer than the earth is its measure, and wider than the sea.
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If He passes and confines and assembles, who can hinder Him?
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For He knows deceitful people; when He sees iniquity, He does not consider it.
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But an empty man will gain understanding, and [from] a wild donkey a man will be born.
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If you prepare your heart and spread out your hands to Him,
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if there is iniquity in your hand, distance it, and do not allow injustice to dwell in your tents.
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For then you will lift your face without a blemish, and you shall be strong and shall not fear,
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for you shall forget trouble; like water that has passed shall you remember.
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And your luck shall rise more than midday; your darkness shall be like the morning.
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And you shall trust for there is hope, and you shall dig [around yourself] and lie in safety.
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And you shall lie down and no one will frighten you, and great men will supplicate you.
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And the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee, and their hope shall result in intense grief."
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