1. Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:
2. “Should a multitude of words go unanswered,and a man full of talk be judged right?
3. Should your babble silence men,and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
4. For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure,and I am clean in God’s eyes.’
5. But oh, that God would speakand open his lips to you,
6. and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom!For he is manifold in understanding.Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
7. “Can you find out the deep things of God?Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
8. It is higher than heaven—what can you do?Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?