For thou hast said, [a]My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

But, oh that God would speak and open his lips against thee!

That he might show thee the [b]secrets of wisdom how thou hast deserved double, according to right: know therefore that God hath forgotten thee for thine iniquity.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 11:4 He chargeth Job with this, that he should say, that the thing which he spake was true, and that he was without sin in the sight of God.
  2. Job 11:6 Which is not to stand in justifying of thyself: he signifieth that man will never be overcome, while he reasoneth with another, and therefore God must break off the controversy, and stop man’s mouth.

You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless(A)
    and I am pure(B) in your sight.’
Oh, how I wish that God would speak,(C)
    that he would open his lips against you
and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,(D)
    for true wisdom has two sides.
    Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.(E)

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