Job 11

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¹Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: ✦ ²“Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated? ✦ ³Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke? ✦ ⁴You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’ ✦ ⁵But if only God would speak and open His lips against you, ✦ ⁶and 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. ✦ ⁷Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty? ✦ ⁸They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know? ✦ ⁹Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea. ✦ ¹⁰If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him? ✦ ¹¹Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note? ✦ ¹²But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man! ✦ ¹³As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him, ✦ ¹⁴if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents, ✦ ¹⁵then indeed you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and unafraid. ✦ ¹⁶For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by. ✦ ¹⁷Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning. ✦ ¹⁸You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety. ✦ ¹⁹You will lie down without fear, and many will court your favor. ✦ ²⁰But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Job 22 ·8 Job 34 ·6 Job 6 ·5 Job 15 ·5 Job 9 ·4 Job 5 ·4 Job 8 ·3 Lev 26 ·3

Christ at the center

Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

How Job 11 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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