Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves. 011:007 "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty? 011:008 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know? 011:009 Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. 011:010 If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him? 011:011 For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn't consider it. 011:012 An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt. 011:013 "If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him. 011:014 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents. 011:015 Surely then shall you lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear: 011:016 for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it as waters that are passed away. 011:017 Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning. 011:018 You shall be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you shall search, and shall take your rest in safety. 011:019 Also you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. Yes, many shall court your favor. 011:020 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit." 012:001 Then Job answered, 012:002 "No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. 012:003 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these? 012:004 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke. 012:005 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips. 012:006 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands. 012:007 "But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you. 012:008 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you. 012:009 Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this, 012:010 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind? 012:011 Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food? 012:012 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding. 012:013 "With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding. 012:014 Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release. 012:015 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.