Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Lest ye say, We have found wisdom, God doth thrust him away, 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.

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;'

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 unto you I attend, And lo, there is no reasoner for Job, Or answerer of his sayings among you. 13 Lest ye say, We have found wisdom, God doth thrust him away, not man. 14 And he hath not set in array words for me, And with your sayings I do not answer him.



Cross References

Jeremiah 9:23

Thus said Jehovah: Let not the wise boast himself in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty boast himself in his might, Let not the rich boast himself in his riches,

Genesis 14:23

from a thread even unto a shoe-latchet I take not of anything which thou hast, that thou say not, I -- I have made Abram rich;

Judges 7:2

And Jehovah saith unto Gideon, 'Too many are the people who are with thee for My giving Midian into their hand, lest Israel beautify itself against Me, saying, My hand hath given salvation to me;

Job 1:21

and he saith, 'Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked I turn back thither: Jehovah hath given and Jehovah hath taken: let the name of Jehovah be blessed.'

Job 2:10

And he saith unto her, 'As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.

Job 4:9

From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger consumed.

Job 6:4

For arrows of the Mighty are with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves for me!

Job 12:2

Truly -- ye are the people, And with you doth wisdom die.

Job 15:8-10

Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?

Job 19:6

Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

Job 19:21

Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.

Isaiah 5:21

Woe to the wise in their own eyes, And -- before their own faces -- intelligent!

Isaiah 48:5

And I declare to thee from that time, Before it cometh I have caused thee to hear, Lest thou say, 'Mine idol hath done them, And my graven image, And my molten image did command them.

Isaiah 48:7

Now they have been produced and not from that time, Yea, before the day, and thou hast not heard them, Lest thou say, 'Lo, I have known them.'

Ezekiel 28:3

Lo, thou art wiser than Daniel, No hidden thing have they concealed from thee.

Zechariah 12:7

And saved hath Jehovah the tents of Judah first, So that become not great against Judah Doth the beauty of the house of David, And the beauty of the inhabitant of Jerusalem.

John 19:11

Jesus answered, 'Thou wouldest have no authority against me, if it were not having been given thee from above; because of this, he who is delivering me up to thee hath greater sin.'

1 Corinthians 1:19-21

for it hath been written, 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought;'

1 Corinthians 1:27-29

but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong;

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

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