Job 11-12

Job 11

¹And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --

²Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?

³Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!

⁴And thou sayest, ‘Pure is my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'

⁵And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.

⁶And declare to thee secrets of wisdom, For counsel hath foldings. And know thou that God forgetteth for thee, Some of thine iniquity.

⁷By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?

⁸Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou?

⁹Longer than earth is its measure, And broader than the sea.

¹⁰If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?

¹¹For he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity, And one doth not consider it!

¹²And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.

¹³If thou -- thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,

¹⁴If iniquity is in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.

¹⁵For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not.

¹⁶For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.

¹⁷And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest -- as the morning thou art.

¹⁸And thou hast trusted because their is hope, And searched -- in confidence thou liest down,

¹⁹And thou hast rested, And none is causing trembling, And many have entreated thy face;

²⁰And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope is a breathing out of soul!

Job 12

¹And Job answereth and saith: --

²Truly -- ye are the people, And with you doth wisdom die.

³I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these?

⁴A laughter to his friend I am: ‘He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter is the perfect righteous one.

⁵A torch -- despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.

⁶At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.

⁷And yet, ask, I pray thee, One of the beasts, and it doth shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to thee.

⁸Or talk to the earth, and it sheweth thee, And fishes of the sea recount to thee:

⁹‘Who hath not known in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath done this?

¹⁰In whose hand is the breath of every living thing, And the spirit of all flesh of man.'

¹¹Doth not the ear try words? And the palate taste food for itself?

¹²With the very aged is wisdom, And with length of days understanding.

¹³With Him are wisdom and might, To him are counsel and understanding.

¹⁴Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.

¹⁵Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.

¹⁶With Him are strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver.

¹⁷Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish.

¹⁸The bands of kings He hath opened, And He bindeth a girdle on their loins.

¹⁹Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth.

²⁰Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.

²¹Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.

²²Removing deep things out of darkness, And He bringeth out to light death-shade.

²³Magnifying the nations, and He destroyeth them, Spreading out the nations, and He quieteth them.

²⁴Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy -- no way!

²⁵They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.