 1Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: 2“Are all these words to
go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated? 3Will your idle
talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you
mock? 4You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in
your sight.’ 5Oh, how I wish that God would speak, that he would
open his lips against you 6and 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? 8They are higher
than the heavens above—what can you do? 9Their measure is longer
than the earth and wider than the sea. 10“If he comes along and
confines you in prison and convenes a court, who can oppose him?
11Surely he recognizes deceivers; and when he sees evil, does he
not take note? 12But the witless can no more become wise than a
wild donkey’s colt can be born human.#11:12Or wild donkey can be
born tame 13“Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out