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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.[a]
Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

‘Can you find out the deep things of God?
    Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 11:6 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. Job 11:7 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

Oh, how I wish that God would speak,(A)
    that he would open his lips against you
and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,(B)
    for true wisdom has two sides.
    Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.(C)

“Can you fathom(D) the mysteries of God?
    Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

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