1. Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
2. “Are all these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated?
3. Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock?
4. You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in your sight.’
5. Oh, how I wish that God would speak, that he would open his lips against you
6. and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.
7. “Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?