1. Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
2. “Should an abundance of words go unanswered, or a man full of talk be vindicated?
3. Should your loose talk put people to silence? And when you mock, shall no one put you to shame?
4. For you say, ‘My teaching is pure, and I am clean in your sight.’
5. But, O that God might speak, and that he would open his lips to you,