Job 32:13

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“So do not claim, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.’”

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BSBPD

“So do not claim, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.’”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 32:13 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 14:23that I will not accept even a thread, or a strap of a sandal, or anything that belongs to you, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
  2. Judges 7:2Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many people for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
  3. Job 1:21saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
  4. Job 2:10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
  5. Job 4:9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
  6. Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
  7. Job 12:2“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!
  8. Job 15:8Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?
  9. Job 19:6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
  10. Job 19:21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
  11. Isaiah 5:21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
  12. Isaiah 48:5Therefore I declared it to you long ago; I announced it before it came to pass, so that you could not claim, ‘My idol has done this; my carved image and molten god has ordained it.’
  13. Isaiah 48:7They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot claim, ‘I already knew them!’
  14. Jeremiah 9:23This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.
  15. Ezekiel 28:3Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!
  16. Zechariah 12:7The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.
  17. John 19:11Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed Me over to you is guilty of greater sin.”
  18. 1 Corinthians 1:19For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
  19. 1 Corinthians 1:27But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
  20. 1 Corinthians 3:18Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.

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