Job 11:5
3 Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
4 You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’
But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,
6 and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
7 Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,
- KJV
- But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
- WEB
- But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,
- ASV
- But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against thee,
- DARBY
- But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
- BLB
- But who will give God to speak, and open His lips against you,
- ÅB
- Men bare Gud ville tale og åpne sine lepper mot deg
- OTB
- Å, at Gud ville tale
og åpne sine lepper mot deg, - B1930
- Men bare Gud vilde tale og oplate sine leber mot dig
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 38:1–2
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
Read in contextJob 31:35
(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
Read in contextJob 23:3–7
If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.
Read in contextJob 40:1–5
And the LORD said to Job:
Read in contextJob 42:7
After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.
Read in contextJob 40:8
Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
Read in contextJob 33:6–18
I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.
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