Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom. God may vanquish him, not man.
New American Standard Bible
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God will
King James Version
Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.
Holman Bible
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;
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.
Julia Smith Translation
Lest ye shall say, We found wisdom: God will thrust him, 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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 32:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Rebukes Job And His Three Friends
12 Yea, I attended to you. And, behold, there was none who convinced Job, or who answered his words among you. 13 Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom. God may vanquish him, not man. 14 For he has not directed his words against me. Neither will I answer him with your speeches.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:23
Thus says LORD: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man glory in his might. Let not the rich man glory in his riches,
Genesis 14:23
that I will not take a thread nor a shoe latchet nor anything that is thine, lest thou should say, I have made Abram rich,
Judges 7:2
And LORD said to Gideon, The people who are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, My own hand has saved me.
Job 1:21
And he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. LORD gave, and LORD has taken away, blessed be the name of LORD.
Job 2:10
But he said to her, Thou speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
Job 4:9
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Job 12:2
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
Job 15:8-10
Have thou heard the secret counsel of God? And do thou limit wisdom to thyself?
Job 19:6
know now that God has subverted me, and has encompassed me with his net.
Job 19:21
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
Isaiah 5:21
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Isaiah 48:5
therefore I have declared it to thee from of old. Before it came to pass I showed it to thee, lest thou should say, My idol has done them. And my graven image, and my molten image, has commanded them.
Isaiah 48:7
They are created now, and not from of old. And thou have not heard them before this day, lest thou should say, Behold, I knew them.
Ezekiel 28:3
Behold, thou are wiser than Daniel. There is no secret that is hidden from thee.
Zechariah 12:7
LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.
John 19:11
Jesus answered him, Thou would have no authority against me, unless it were given thee from above. Because of this he who delivered me to thee has greater sin.
1 Corinthians 1:19-21
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will frustrate the understanding of those of understanding.
1 Corinthians 1:27-29
But God chose the foolish things of the world, so that he might humiliate the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world, so that he might humiliate the powerful.
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise.