Zophar Rebukes Job
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: Job 2:11Job 20:1
“Should this stream of words go unanswered Jas 1:19Job 18:2Pro 10:19Act 17:18Job 16:3Job 8:2Psa 140:11
and such a speaker be vindicated?
Should your babbling put others to silence? Job 17:22Th 3:14Jer 15:17Job 12:4Job 13:4Job 13:9Job 15:2-3Job 21:3
Will you scoff without rebuke?
You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, Job 10:7Job 6:101Pe 3:15Job 14:4Job 34:5-6Job 35:2Job 6:29-30Job 7:20
and I am pure in Your sight.’
But if only God would speak Job 38:1-2Job 23:3-7Job 31:35Job 33:6-18Job 40:1-5Job 40:8Job 42:7
and open His lips against you,
and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, Ezr 9:13Lam 3:22Dan 2:28Eph 3:5Mat 13:35Job 15:8Dan 2:47Deu 29:29
for true wisdom has two sides.
Know then that God exacts from you
less than your iniquity deserves.
Can you fathom the deep things of God Rom 11:33Ecc 3:11Psa 145:3Isa 40:28Eph 3:8Job 37:23Job 5:9Psa 77:19
or discover the limits of the Almighty?
They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? Job 22:12Isa 55:9Psa 139:6-8Amo 9:2Job 26:6Job 35:5Psa 148:132Ch 6:18
They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
Their measure is longer than the earth Psa 139:9-10Job 28:24-25Psa 65:5-8
and wider than the sea.
If He comes along to imprison you, Job 12:14Job 9:12-13Rev 3:7Dan 4:35Isa 41:27Deu 32:30Job 34:29Job 38:8
or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
Surely He knows the deceit of men. Heb 4:13Psa 10:14Rev 2:23Jhn 2:24-25Ecc 5:8Hab 1:13Hos 7:2Jer 17:9-10
If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?
But a witless man can no more become wise Jas 2:20Job 39:5-8Ecc 3:18Jas 3:13-17Jer 2:24Psa 73:221Co 3:18-20Eph 2:3
than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man! 1
As for you, if you direct your heart Psa 143:6Psa 88:91Sa 7:3Psa 78:8Job 8:5-6Luk 12:472Ch 12:14Job 22:21-22
and lift up your hands to Him,
if you put away the iniquity in your hand, Job 22:23Jas 4:8Job 4:7Ezk 18:30-31Isa 1:15Job 22:5Job 34:32Psa 101:2
and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
then indeed you will lift up your face without shame; Job 22:261Jn 2:281Jn 3:19-221Ti 2:82Co 1:12Gen 4:5-6Job 10:15Pro 14:26
you will stand firm and unafraid.
For you will forget your misery, Isa 65:16Ecc 5:20Isa 54:4Isa 54:9Jhn 16:21Gen 41:51Isa 12:1-2Rev 7:14-17
recalling it only as waters gone by.
Your life will be brighter than noonday; Isa 58:8-10Psa 37:6Pro 4:18Zec 14:6-7Hos 6:3Mic 7:8-9Psa 112:41Ch 29:10
its darkness will be like the morning.
You will be secure, because there is hope, Pro 3:24-26Psa 3:5Psa 43:5Psa 4:8Lev 26:5-6Rom 5:3-5Job 7:6Pro 14:32
and you will look around and lie down in safety.
You will lie down without fear, Isa 60:14Isa 45:14Lev 26:6Psa 45:12Job 42:8-9Pro 19:6Rev 3:9Gen 26:26-31
and many will court your favor.
But the eyes of the wicked will fail, Deu 28:65Job 17:5Job 31:16Amo 2:14Amo 5:19-20Amo 9:1-3Heb 2:3Job 18:14
and escape will elude them;
they will hope for their last breath.”