Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Lest you should say, We have found out wisdom: God vanquishes 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;
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.
Julia Smith Translation
Lest ye shall say, We found wisdom: God will thrust 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 unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words: 13 Lest you should say, We have found out wisdom: God vanquishes him, not man. 14 Now he has not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:23
Thus says the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither 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 from a thread even to a shoe thong, and that I will not take anything that is yours, lest you should say, I have made Abram rich:
Judges 7:2
And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, my own hand has saved me.
Job 1:21
And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there: the LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Job 2:10
But he said unto her, You 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 did not Job sin with his lips.
Job 4:9
By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison thereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Job 12:2
No doubt you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
Job 15:8-10
Have you heard the council of God? and do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Job 19:6
Know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net.
Job 19:21
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
Isaiah 5:21
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Isaiah 48:5
I have even from the beginning declared it to you; before it came to pass I showed it to you: lest you 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 the beginning; even before the day when you heard them not; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.
Ezekiel 28:3
Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from you:
Zechariah 12:7
The 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 do not magnify themselves against Judah.
John 19:11
Jesus answered, You could have no power at all against me, except it were given you from above: therefore he that delivered me unto you has the greater sin.
1 Corinthians 1:19-21
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
1 Corinthians 1:27-29
But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.