Job 11:5

Wycliffe Bible

And `Y wolde, that God spak with thee, and openyde hise lippis to thee;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But if only God would speakand open his lips against you!

Hebrew Names Version
But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against you,

King James Version
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

English Standard Version
But oh, that God would speak and open his lips to you,

New Century Version
I wish God would speak and open his lips against you

New English Translation
But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you,

Amplified Bible
"But oh, that God would speak, And open His lips [to speak] against you,

New American Standard Bible
"But if only God would speak, And open His lips against you,

World English Bible
But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against you,

Geneva Bible (1587)
But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee!

Legacy Standard Bible
But would that God might speak,And open His lips against you,

Berean Standard Bible
But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,

Contemporary English Version
But I wish he would speak

Complete Jewish Bible
I wish that God would speak, would open his mouth to answer you,

Darby Translation
But oh that +God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

Easy-to-Read Version
I wish God would answer you and tell you that you are wrong.

George Lamsa Translation
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you;

Good News Translation
How I wish God would answer you!

Lexham English Bible
But, O that God might speak, and that he would open his lips to you,

Literal Translation
But who will grant that God would speak and open His lips against you,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O that God wolde speake, and open his lippes agaynst the,

American Standard Version
But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against thee,

Bible in Basic English
But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But oh that God would speak, and open His lips against thee;

King James Version (1611)
But, O that God would speake, and open his lippes against thee,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But O that God woulde speake, and open his lippes against thee:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But oh that the Lord would speak to thee, and open his lips to thee!

English Revised Version
But Oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

Update Bible Version
But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against you,

Webster's Bible Translation
But Oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

New King James Version
But oh, that God would speak, And open His lips against you,

New Living Translation
If only God would speak; if only he would tell you what he thinks!

New Life Bible
If only God would speak, and open His lips against you.

New Revised Standard
But O that God would speak, and open his lips to you,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, in very deed, oh that GOD would speak, that he would open his lips with thee:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I wish that God would speak with thee, and would open his lips to thee,

Revised Standard Version
But oh, that God would speak, and open his lips to you,

Young's Literal Translation
And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But would that God might speak, And open His lips against you,

Contextual Overview

¹ Forsothe Sophar Naamathites answeride, and seide, ² Whether he, that spekith many thingis, schal not also here? ether whethir a man ful of wordis schal be maad iust? ³ Schulen men be stille to thee aloone? whanne thou hast scorned othere men, schalt thou not be ouercomun of ony man? ⁴ For thou seidist, My word is cleene, and Y am cleene in thi siyt. ⁵ And `Y wolde, that God spak with thee, and openyde hise lippis to thee; ⁶ to schewe to thee the priuetees of wisdom, and that his lawe is manyfold, and thou schuldist vndurstonde, that thou art requirid of hym to paie myche lesse thingis, than thi wickidnesse disserueth.

Bible Verse Review
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Job 23:3-7, Job 31:35, Job 33:6-18, Job 38:1, Job 38:2, Job 40:1-5, Job 40:8, Job 42:7

Reciprocal: Job 9:14 - shall I Job 13:3 - Surely

Cross-References

Genesis 11:13
and Arfaxath lyuede aftir that he gendride Sale thre hundride and thre yeer, and gendride sones and douytris.

Genesis 11:14
Also Sale lyuede thretti yeer, and gendride Heber;

Genesis 11:23
and Saruch lyuede aftir that he gendride Nacor two hundrid yeer, and gendride sones and douytris.

Genesis 11:24
Forsothe Nachor lyuede nyne and twenti yeer, and gendride Thare;

Genesis 18:21
and schal se whether thei han fillid in werk the cry that cam to me, that Y wite whether it is not so.

Exodus 3:8
And Y knew the sorewe of the puple, and Y cam down to delyuere it fro the hondis of Egipcians, and lede out of that lond in to a good lond and brood, into a lond that flowith with milk and hony, to the places of Cananey, and of Ethei, of Amorrey, and of Feresei, of Euey, and of Jebusei.

Exodus 19:11
and be thei redi in to the thridde dai; for in the thridde dai the Lord schal come doun bifore al the puple on the hil of Synai.

Exodus 19:18
Forsothe al the hil of Synai smokide, for the Lord hadde come doun theronne in fier; and smoke stiede therof as of a furneis, and al the hil was ferdful;

Exodus 19:20
and the Lord cam doun on the hil of Synay, in thilke cop of the hil, and clepide Moises to the cop therof. And whanne he hadde stied thidur,

Psalms 11:4
The Lord is in his hooli temple; he is Lord, his seete is in heuene. Hise iyen biholden on a pore man; hise iyelidis axen the sones of men.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But O that God would speak,.... To Job, and stop his mouth, so full of words; convict him of his lies, reprove him for his mocks and scoffs, and make him ashamed of them; refute his false doctrine and oppose it, and show him his folly and vanity in imagining it to be pure, and in conceit thinking himself to be free from sin, and even in the sight of God himself: Zophar seems by this wish to suggest, that what his friends had as yet spoke had had no effect upon Job, and signified nothing; and that he despaired of bringing him to any true sense of himself and his case, but that God only could do it; and therefore he entreats he would take him in hand, and speak unto him; as he had by his providences in afflicting him, so by his spirit in teaching and instructing him; and he adds:

and open his lips against thee; or rather, "with thee", or "to thee" a; converse with thee; speak out his mind freely; disclose the secrets of his wisdom, as in Job 11:6, and that for thy good; fully convince thee of thy sins, mistakes, and follies: for, notwithstanding all the heat and warmth of Zophar's spirit, yet, being a good man, as it cannot be thought he should wilfully and knowingly slander Job, and put a false gloss on his words, so neither could he desire any hurt or injury to be done him, or that God would deal with him as an enemy; only convince and reprove him for his sin, and justify himself and his own conduct, which he imagined Job had arraigned.

a עמך μετα σου, Sept. "tecum", Pagninus, Montanus, Beza, Vatablus, Mercerus, Cocceius, Schmidt, Michaelis; "tibi", V. L. "ad te", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But oh that God would speak - Hebrew, “and truly, who will give that God should speak.” It is the expression of an earnest wish that God would address him, and bring him to a proper sense of his ill desert. The meaning is, that if God should speak to him he would by no means find himself so holy as he now claimed to be.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 11:5. But O that God would speak — How little feeling, humanity, and charity is there in this prayer!