Job 32:13

World English Bible (2000)

Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;'

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  • Jer 9:23 : 23 Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let 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 Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.
  • John 19:11 : 11 Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."
  • 1 Cor 1:19-21 : 19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing." 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
  • 1 Cor 1:27-29 : 27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; 28 and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are: 29 that no flesh should boast before God.
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks 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 sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'
  • Judg 7:2 : 2 Yahweh said to Gideon, "The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, 'My own hand has saved me.'
  • Job 1:21 : 21 He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh."
  • Job 2:10 : 10 But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.
  • Job 4:9 : 9 By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
  • Job 12:2 : 2 "No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
  • Job 15:8-9 : 8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself? 9 What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us? 10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.
  • Job 19:6 : 6 know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
  • Job 19:21 : 21 "Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
  • Isa 5:21 : 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
  • Isa 48:5 : 5 therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, 'My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.'
  • Isa 48:7 : 7 They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you didn't hear them; lest you should say, 'Behold, I knew them.'

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    32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

    33 There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

  • 12 Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.

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    14 How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

    15 But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.

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    12 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

    13 Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

  • Job 37:23-24
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    23 We can't reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

    24 Therefore men revere him. He doesn't regard any who are wise of heart."

  • 13 "With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

  • 27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, 'Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.'"

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    8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

    9 What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

  • 2 "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

  • 13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • 13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

  • 23 For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

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    2 "No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

    3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

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    18 Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

    19 Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

  • 4 Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

  • 17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

  • 6 that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

  • 22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

  • 22 "Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

  • 3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

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    12 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

    13 "God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

  • 28 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"

  • 9 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'

  • 5 "Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

  • 3 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.

  • 16 Then I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

  • 2 "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

  • 17 then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.

  • 9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

  • 11 Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?

  • 22 In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

  • 23 Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let the rich man glory in his riches;

  • 4 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

  • 17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

  • 23 Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'