Job 32:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, 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 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:
• Ezek 28:3 : 3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
• Zech 12:7 : 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 : 11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
• 1 Cor 1:19-21 : 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
• 1 Cor 1:27-29 : 27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
• 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
• Gen 14:23 : 23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
• Judg 7:2 : 2 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
• Job 1:21 : 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; blessed be the name of the LORD.
• 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 blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
• Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: 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 of God? and dost thou restrain 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 grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
• Job 19:6 : 6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, 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 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed 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 the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.