Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Lest ye shall say, We found wisdom: God will thrust him, not man.

New American Standard Bible

“Do not say,
We have found wisdom;
God will rout him, not man.’

King James Version

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

Holman Bible

So do not claim, “We have found wisdom;
let God deal with him, not man.”

International Standard Version

"So that you cannot claim, "We have found wisdom!' let God do the rebuking, not man;

A Conservative Version

Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom. God may vanquish him, not man.

American Standard Version

Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man:

Amplified


“Beware if you say,
‘We have found wisdom;
God thrusts Job down [justly], not man [for God alone is dealing with him].’

Bible in Basic English

Take care that you do not say, Wisdom is here; God may overcome him, but not man.

Darby Translation

That ye may not say, We have found out wisdom; God will make him yield, not man.

King James 2000

Lest you should say, We have found out wisdom: God vanquishes him, not man.

Lexham Expanded Bible

So do not say, 'We have found wisdom; let God refute him, not a man.'

Modern King James verseion

that you do not say, We have found out wisdom. God has pushed him down, not man.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

lest ye should praise yourselves, to have found out wisdom: because it is God that hath cast him out, and no man.

NET Bible

So do not say, 'We have found wisdom! God will refute him, not man!'

New Heart English Bible

Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;'

The Emphasized Bible

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom. GOD, must put him to flight, not man.

Webster

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

World English Bible

Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;'

Youngs Literal Translation

Lest ye say, We have found wisdom, God doth thrust him away, not man.

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

חכמה 
Chokmah 
Usage: 149

God
אל 
'el 
Usage: 114

נדף 
Nadaph 
Usage: 9

Context Readings

Elihu Rebukes Job And His Three Friends

12 And I will show myself attentive even to you, and behold, none from you confuting to Job, answering his words. 13 Lest ye shall say, We found wisdom: God will thrust him, not man. 14 And he arranged not words against me: and I will not turn back to him with your words.



Cross References

Jeremiah 9:23

Thus said Jehovah, The wise shall not boast in his wisdom, and the strong shall not boast in his strength; the rich shall not boast in his riches:

Genesis 14:23

If from a line and to a shoe-string and if I shall take from all which is to thee, and thou shalt not say I enriched Abram:

Judges 7:2

And Jehovah will say to Gideon, The people many which are with thee for me to give Midian into their hand, lest Israel shall glory before me, saying, My hand saved me.

Job 1:21

And he will say, Naked I came forth from my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn back there: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah took; the name of Jehovah shall be blessed.

Job 2:10

And he will say to her, According to the word of one of the foolish women thou wilt speak. Shall we also receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this. Job sinned not with his lips.

Job 4:9

By the breath of God they shall perish, and from the spirit of his anger they shall be finished.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are with me, which their anger drank up my spirit: the terrors of God will be prepared for me.

Job 12:2

Verily that ye are the people, and shall wisdom die with you?

Job 15:8-10

Shalt thou hear in the consultation of God? and wilt thou reserve wisdom to thyself?

Job 19:6

Know ye now that God subverted me; and he folded his net about me.

Job 19:21

Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, for the hand of God touched upon me.

Isaiah 5:21

Wo to the wise in their eyes, and knowing before their face.

Isaiah 48:5

I will announce to thee from then; before it shall come I caused thee to hear, lest thou shalt say, My image did them; and my carved image, and my Molten image commanded them.

Isaiah 48:7

Now were they created and not from then; and before the day and thou heardest them not; lest thou shalt say, Behold, I knew them.

Ezekiel 28:3

Behold thee wise above Daniel; not any thing hidden was hidden to thee:

Zechariah 12:7

And Jehovah saved the tents of Judah first, so that the glorying of the house of David shall not be magnified, and the glorying of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, against Judah.

John 19:11

Jesus answered, Thou bast no power against me, if it were not given thee from above: therefore he delivering me to thee has greater sin.

1 Corinthians 1:19-21

For it has been written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and put away the understanding of the intelligent.

1 Corinthians 1:27-29

But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong;

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let none completely deceive himself. If any think to be wise in this life, let him be foolish, that he may he wise.

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