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Job 11:4 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’ "
Job 11:4
Verse in Context
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2 “Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?
3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?
4 For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’
5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,
6 that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
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Job 11:1
"Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,"
Job 11:2
"“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?"
Job 11:3
"Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?"
Job 11:5
"But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,"
Job 11:6
"that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves."
Job 11:7
"“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?"
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