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,
6. and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom, for insight has many sides. And know that God on your behalf has forgotten some of your guilt.
7. “Can you find out the essence of God, or can you find out the ultimate limits of Shaddai?
8. It is higher than the heaven; what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol; what can you know?
9. Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.