1. And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --
2. Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?
3. Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!
4. And thou sayest, `Pure [is] my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'
5. And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.
6. And declare to thee secrets of wisdom, For counsel hath foldings. And know thou that God forgetteth for thee, [Some] of thine iniquity.
7. By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?
8. Heights of the heavens! --what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! --what knowest thou?
9. Longer than earth [is] its measure, And broader than the sea.
10. If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?
11. For he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity, And one doth not consider [it]!