Job 32:13
Good News Translation
How can you claim you have discovered wisdom? God must answer Job, for you have failed.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet do not say, ‘We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not a human.’

Contemporary English Version
You shouldn't say, "We know what's right! Let God punish him."

New American Bible
So do not say, “We have met wisdom; God can vanquish him but no mortal!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lest you should say: We have found wisdom, God hath cast him down, not man.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lest you should say: We have found wisdom, God hath cast him down, not man.

Lest

Genesis 14:23 That from the very woof thread unto the shoe latchet, I will not take of any things that are thine, lest thou say: I have enriched Abram.

Judges 7:2 And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people that are with thee are many, and Madian shall not be delivered into their hands: lest Israel should glory against me, and say: I was delivered by my own strength.

Isaiah 48:5,7 I foretold thee of old, before they came to pass I told thee, lest thou shouldst say: My idols have done these things, and my graven and molten things have commanded them. . . .

Zechariah 12:7 And the Lord shall save the tabernacles of Juda, as in the beginning: that the house of David, and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, may not boast and magnify themselves against Juda.

We

Job 12:2 Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you?

Job 15:8-10 Hast thou heard God's counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to thee? . . .

Isaiah 5:21 Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.

Jeremiah 9:23 Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches:

Ezekiel 28:3 Behold thou art wiser than Daniel: no secret is hid from thee.

1 Corinthians 1:19-21,27-29 For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise: and the prudence of the prudent I will reject. . . .

1 Corinthians 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

God

Job 1:21 And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.

Job 2:10 And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.

Job 4:9 Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath.

Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.

Job 19:6,21 At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges. . . .

John 19:11 Jesus answered: Thou shouldst not have any power against me, unless it were given thee from above. Therefore, he that hath delivered me to thee hath the greater sin.

Context
Elihu Rebukes Job's Three Friends
12And as long as I thought you said some thing, I considered: but, as I see, there is none of you that can convince Job, and answer his words. 13Lest you should say: We have found wisdom, God hath cast him down, not man.14He hath spoken nothing to me, and I will not answer him according to your words.…
Cross References
Job 31:40
Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.

Job 32:12
And as long as I thought you said some thing, I considered: but, as I see, there is none of you that can convince Job, and answer his words.

Job 32:14
He hath spoken nothing to me, and I will not answer him according to your words.

Jeremiah 9:23
Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches:

Job 32:12
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