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For you say, “My conduct[a] is pure,
    and I am clean in God’s[b] sight.”
But O that God would speak,
    and open his lips to you,
and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom!
    For wisdom is many-sided.[c]
Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 11:4 Gk: Heb teaching
  2. Job 11:4 Heb your
  3. Job 11:6 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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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