1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
2 “Should an abundance of words go unanswered, or a man full of talk be vindicated?
3 Should your loose talk put people to silence? And when you mock, shall no one put you to shame?
4 For you say, ‘My teaching is pure, and I am clean in your sight.’
5 But, O that God might speak, and that he would open his lips to you,
6 and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom, for insight has many sides. And know that God on your behalf has forgotten some of your guilt.