¹ Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: ² “Are all these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated? ³ Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock? ⁴ You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in your sight.` ⁵ Oh, how I wish that God would speak, that he would open his lips against you ⁶ and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin. ⁷ “Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? ⁸ They are higher than the heavens above—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths below—what can you know?