1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,2Shall an abundance of words go unanswered? Or will a man of lips be justified?3Shall men be made silent by your bluster? Yet you mock, and no one is humiliated.4You say, 'My teaching is pure, and I have been pure in your eyes.'5But who will cause God to speak and open his lips to you,6and declare to you the secrets of wisdom? For they are double to wisdom. Know also that God causes you to forget your iniquity.7Can you search out God? Or can you reach the limit of the Almighty?8What can you accomplish in the heights of heaven? What can you know of the deep things from Sheol?9Its measure is longer than the land and broader than the sea.10If he passes by and shuts in and gathers, who can turn him back?11For he knows worthless men and sees wickedness, yet he does not discern it.12A hollow man gains understanding, and a man is born like a colt of a wild donkey.13If you prepare your heart and stretch out your palm toward him,14if wickedness is in your hand, put it far away, and let no injustice dwell in your tents.15Then you will lift your face without blemish; you will be firm and will not fear.16For you will forget your trouble like water that has passed away; you will remember it no more.17Your lifetime will rise above midday; gloom will become like the morning.18You will trust, because there is hope; you will search and lie down in security.19You will stretch out, and no one will make you tremble; many will entreat your favor.20The eyes of the wicked will fail, their refuge will perish from them, and their hope will be the exhalation of the soul.