Job 11:6
New International Version
and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.

New Living Translation
If only he would tell you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom is not a simple matter. Listen! God is doubtless punishing you far less than you deserve!

English Standard Version
and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

Berean Standard Bible
and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.

King James Bible
And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

New King James Version
That He would show you the secrets of wisdom! For they would double your prudence. Know therefore that God exacts from you Less than your iniquity deserves.

New American Standard Bible
And show you the secrets of wisdom! For sound wisdom has two sides. Know then that God forgets part of your guilt.

NASB 1995
And show you the secrets of wisdom! For sound wisdom has two sides. Know then that God forgets a part of your iniquity.

NASB 1977
And show you the secrets of wisdom! For sound wisdom has two sides. Know then that God forgets a part of your iniquity.

Legacy Standard Bible
And tell you the secrets of wisdom! For sound wisdom has two sides. Know then that God forgets a part of your iniquity.

Amplified Bible
And [that He would] show you the secrets of wisdom! For sound wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God forgets a part of your wickedness and guilt.

Christian Standard Bible
He would show you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God has chosen to overlook some of your iniquity.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He would show you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God has chosen to overlook some of your sin.

American Standard Version
And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he was showing you the secrets of wisdom, because there are inner chambers to wisdom, and you have known that God has forgiven you your sins

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Then shall he declare to thee the power of wisdom; for it shall be double of that which is with thee: and then shalt thou know, that a just recompence of thy sins has come to thee from the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
and let you know that wisdom has many different sides. You would then discover that God has punished you less than you deserve.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That he might shew thee the secrets of wisdom, and that his law is manifold, and thou mightest understand that he exacteth much less of thee, than thy iniquity deserveth.

English Revised Version
And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that iris manifold in effectual working! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He would tell you the secrets of wisdom, because [true] wisdom is twice [as great as your wisdom], and you would know that God forgets your sin.

Good News Translation
He would tell you there are many sides to wisdom; there are things too deep for human knowledge. God is punishing you less than you deserve.

International Standard Version
and disclose his wise secrets? After all, there's so much more to understanding. So be aware that God will exact from you less than your sin deserves."

JPS Tanakh 1917
And that He would tell thee the secrets of wisdom, That sound wisdom is manifold! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

Literal Standard Version
And declares to you secrets of wisdom, for counsel has foldings. And know that God forgets of your iniquity for you.

Majority Standard Bible
and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.

New American Bible
And tell you the secrets of wisdom, for good sense has two sides; So you might learn that God overlooks some of your sinfulness.

NET Bible
and reveal to you the secrets of wisdom--for true wisdom has two sides--so that you would know that God has forgiven some of your sins.

New Revised Standard Version
and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For wisdom is many-sided. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

New Heart English Bible
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thy iniquity deserveth.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
And declare to thee secrets of wisdom, For counsel hath foldings. And know thou that God forgetteth for thee, Some of thine iniquity.

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Context
Zophar Rebukes Job
5But if only God would speak and open His lips against you, 6and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves. 7Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?…

Cross References
Job 9:4
God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?

Job 11:5
But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,

Job 12:13
Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.

Job 15:5
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

Job 22:5
Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?


Treasury of Scripture

And that he would show you the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

shew thee

Job 15:8,11
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? …

Job 28:28
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

God exacteth

Ezra 9:13
And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;

Psalm 103:10
He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

Psalm 106:43-46
Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity…

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1. Zophar reproves Job for justifying himself
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(6) They are double to that which is!--This translation conveys no sense, and is not a translation; see the last Note.

Verse 6. - And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! In God are "all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hid away" (ἀπόκρυφοι Colossians 2:3). Zophar wishes that he would reveal to Job this wisdom, or a portion of it, as, in that case, all his pride and self-confidence would be confounded and fall away. That they are double to that which is! This phrase is very obscure. Some translate, "For he (i.e. God) is twice as wise as thou;" others, "That it (i.e. wisdom) is manifold in effectual working;" others, again, "That they (i.e. the treasures of wisdom) are double (or manifold) in substance." Perhaps this last rendering is to be preferred. The treasures of wisdom that are hid away in God have many depths, secret and unexplored; they "lie, as it were, fold over fold, in unexpected complexities, defying the shallow and unscrutinizing gaze" (Professor Stanley Leathes). If they were revealed to Job, they would astonish, confound, silence, him. Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. "Be sure," i.e., "that God, so far from inflicting on thee a more severe punishment than thou deservest, in reality excuses much of thy guilt, and punishes thee less than is thy due." This is Zophar's conclusion from his general knowledge of God's dealings with man (comp. Ezra 9:13).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
and disclose
וְיַגֶּד־ (wə·yag·geḏ-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5046: To be conspicuous

to you
לְךָ֨ ׀ (lə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

the secrets
תַּֽעֲלֻמ֣וֹת (ta·‘ă·lu·mō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 8587: A hidden thing, secret

of wisdom,
חָכְמָה֮ (ḥāḵ·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2451: Wisdom

for
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

true wisdom
לְֽת֫וּשִׁיָּ֥ה (lə·ṯū·šî·yāh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8454: Support, ability, help, an undertaking, understanding

has two sides.
כִפְלַ֪יִם (ḵip̄·la·yim)
Noun - md
Strong's 3718: A duplicate

Know
וְדַ֡ע (wə·ḏa‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

then that
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

God
אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַ (’ĕ·lō·w·ha)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 433: God -- a deity, the Deity

exacts
יַשֶּׁ֥ה (yaš·šeh)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5382: To forget, to neglect, to remit, remove

from you
לְךָ֥ (lə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

[less] than your iniquity [deserves].
מֵעֲוֺנֶֽךָ׃ (mê·‘ă·wō·ne·ḵā)
Preposition-m | Noun - common singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity


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