Job 32:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

פֶּן־תֹּ֣֭אמְרוּ מָצָ֣אנוּ חָכְמָ֑ה אֵ֖ל יִדְּפֶ֣נּוּ לֹא־אִֽישׁ׃

Transliteration

Lest-pen-tōʾmərû we have found māṣāʾnû ḥåkmāh ʾēl yiddəp̄ennû not-lōʾ-ʾîš

Grammar Details

• *pen*: conjunction - lest
• *tōʾmərû*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine plural - you say
• *māṣāʾnû*: qal perfect 1st person common plural - we have found
• *ḥåkmāh*: noun feminine singular - wisdom
• *ʾēl*: noun masculine singular - God
• *yiddəp̄ennû*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - he drives him away
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *ʾîš*: noun masculine singular - man

Word Meanings

• *pen-tōʾmərû*: lest you say/do not say
• *māṣāʾnû ḥåkmāh*: we have found wisdom/we have discovered the truth
• *ʾēl yiddəp̄ennû*: God drives him away/God defeats him/God refutes him
• *lōʾ-ʾîš*: not man/no human/not a person

Referenced Verses

• Jer 9:23 : 23 Thus saith Jehovah, 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;
• Ezek 28:3 : 3 behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;
• Zech 12:7 : 7 Jehovah also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem be not magnified above Judah.
• John 19:11 : 11 Jesus answered him, Thou wouldest have no power against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath greater sin.
• 1 Cor 1:19-21 : 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought. 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.
• 1 Cor 1:27-29 : 27 but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; 28 and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, [yea] and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are: 29 that no {G3956} flesh should glory before God.
• 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
• Gen 14:23 : 23 that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
• Judg 7:2 : 2 And Jehovah said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
• Job 1:21 : 21 and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah.
• Job 2:10 : 10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. 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 : 9 By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of his anger are they consumed.
• Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
• Job 12:2 : 2 No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.
• Job 15:8-9 : 8 Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself? 9 What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us? 10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.
• Job 19:6 : 6 Know now that God hath subverted me [in my cause], And hath compassed me with his net.
• Job 19:21 : 21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.
• Isa 5:21 : 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
• Isa 48:5 : 5 therefore I have declared it to thee from of old; before it came to pass I showed it thee; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
• Isa 48:7 : 7 They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.