1. Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:
2. “Should these words go unanswered?Is this talker in the right?
3. Your lies do not make people quiet;people should correct you when you make fun of God.
4. You say, ‘My teachings are right,and I am clean in God’s sight.’
5. I wish God would speakand open his lips against you
6. and tell you the secrets of wisdom,because wisdom has two sides.Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.
7. “Can you understand the secrets of God?Can you search the limits of the Almighty?