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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Zophar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.11.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Are all these words to go unanswered?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="content">Is this talker to be vindicated?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Will your idle talk reduce others to silence?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="content">Will no one rebuke you when you mock?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You say to God, &#8216;My beliefs are flawless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="content">and I am pure in your sight.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Oh, how I wish that God would speak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="content">that he would open his lips against you</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">for true wisdom has two sides.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can you fathom the mysteries of God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="content">Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They are higher than the heavens above&#8212;what can you do?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="content">They are deeper than the depths below&#8212;what can you know?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their measure is longer than the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="content">and wider than the sea.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;If he comes along and confines you in prison</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="content">and convenes a court, who can oppose him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Surely he recognizes deceivers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="content">and when he sees evil, does he not take note?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But the witless can no more become wise</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="content">than a wild donkey&#8217;s colt can be born human.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">wild donkey can be born tame</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet if you devote your heart to him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="content">and stretch out your hands to him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">if you put away the sin that is in your hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="content">and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">then, free of fault, you will lift up your face;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="content">you will stand firm and without fear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You will surely forget your trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="content">recalling it only as waters gone by.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Life will be brighter than noonday,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="content">and darkness will become like morning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You will be secure, because there is hope;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="content">you will look about you and take your rest in safety.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="content">and many will court your favor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But the eyes of the wicked will fail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="content">and escape will elude them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="content">their hope will become a dying gasp.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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