New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures — With References (Rbi8, en_US, 1984)
Job
Job, 11
1 And Zoʹphar the Naʹa·ma·thite proceeded to answer and say:
2 “Will a multitude of words go unanswered, Or will a mere boaster*1 be in the right?
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3 Will your empty talk itself put men*1 to silence, And will you keep deriding without having anyone rebuke [you]?
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4 Also, you say, ‘My instruction is pure, And I have proved really clean in your eyes.’
5 Yet O if only God himself would speak And open his lips with you!
6 Then he would tell you the secrets of wisdom, For the things of practical wisdom are manifold.*1 Also, you would know*2 that God allows some of your error to be forgotten for you.
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7 Can you find out the deep things of God, Or can you find out to the very limit of the Almighty?
8 It is higher than heaven. What can you accomplish? It is deeper than Sheʹol. What can you know?
9 It is longer than the earth in measure, And broader than the sea.
10 If he moves on and hands [someone] over And calls a court, then who can resist him?
11 For he himself well knows men*1 who are untrue. When he sees what is hurtful, will he not also show himself attentive?
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12 Even a hollow-minded man*1 himself will get good motive As soon as an asinine zebra be born a man.*2
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13 If you yourself will really prepare your heart And actually spread out your palms to him,
14 If what is hurtful is in your hand, put it far away, And let no unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
15 For then you will raise your face without defect And you will certainly become established, and you will not fear.
16 For you—you will forget trouble itself; As waters that have passed along you will remember [it].
17 And brighter than midday will [your] life’s duration arise; Darkness will become like the morning itself.
18 And you will be bound to trust because there exists hope; And you will certainly look carefully around—in security you will lie down.
19 And you will indeed stretch yourself out, with no one to make [you] tremble. And many people will certainly put you in a gentle mood;*1
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20 And the very eyes of the wicked will fail; And a place for flight will certainly perish from them, And their hope will be an expiring of the soul.”