God’s Word Translation
Job 32:13
13So don’t say, ‘We’ve found wisdom. Let God, not humans, defeat him.’
Job 32:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.
- New International Version (NIV)Do not say, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not a man, refute him.’
- English Standard Version (ESV)Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not a man.'
- New King James Version (NKJV)Lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom’; God will vanquish him, not man.
Context of Job 32:13
11I waited for you to speak. I listened for you to share your understanding until you could find the right words. 12I’ve paid close attention to you, but none of you refuted Job. None of you has an answer to what he says. So don’t say, ‘We’ve found wisdom. Let God, not humans, defeat him.’ 14Job did not choose his words to refute me, so I won’t answer him with your speeches. 15“Job’s friends have been overwhelmed and don’t have any more answers. They don’t have another word to say.
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פֶּן־תֹּ֣֭אמְרוּ מָצָ֣אנוּ חָכְמָ֑ה אֵ֖ל יִדְּפֶ֣נּוּ לֹא־אִֽישׁ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 32:13
- Genesis 14:23that I won’t take a thread or a sandal strap. I won’t take anything that is yours so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich.’
- Judges 7:2The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men with you for me to hand Midian over to you. Israel might brag and say, ‘We saved ourselves.’
- Isaiah 48:5That is why I revealed to you what would happen long ago. I told you about them before they happened. ⌞I did this⌟ so you couldn’t say, “My gods have done these things. My carved idols and my metal idols have commanded them to happen.”
- Zechariah 12:7“The Lord will save Judah’s tents first so that the honor of David’s family and the honor of those who live in Jerusalem will not be greater than the honor of Judah.
- Job 12:2“You certainly are ⌞wise⌟ people, and when you die, wisdom will die.
- Job 15:8Did you listen in on God’s council meeting and receive a monopoly on wisdom?
- Isaiah 5:21How horrible it will be for those who think they are wise and consider themselves to be clever.
- Jeremiah 9:23This is what the Lord says: Don’t let wise people brag about their wisdom. Don’t let strong people brag about their strength. Don’t let rich people brag about their riches.
- Ezekiel 28:3You think that you are wiser than Daniel and that no secret can be hidden from you.
- 1 Corinthians 1:19Scripture says, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will reject the intelligence of intelligent people.”
- 1 Corinthians 3:18Don’t deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise in the ways of this world, you should give up that wisdom in order to become really wise.
- Job 1:21He said, “Naked I came from my mother, and naked I will return. The Lord has given, and the Lord has taken away! May the name of the Lord be praised.”
- Job 2:10He said to her, “You’re talking like a godless fool. We accept the good that God gives us. Shouldn’t we also accept the bad?” Through all this Job’s lips did not utter one sinful word.
- Job 4:9God destroys them with his breath and kills them with a blast of his anger.
- Job 6:4because the arrows of the Almighty ⌞have found their target⌟ in me, and my spirit is drinking their poison. God’s terrors line up in battle against me.
- Job 19:6then I want you to know that God has wronged me and surrounded me with his net.
Commentaries on Job 32:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13We have found out wisdom - We by dint of our own wisdom and understanding, have found out the true system of God's providence; and have been able to account for all the sufferings and tribulations of Job. Had they been able to confute Job, they would have triumphed over him in their own self-sufficiency. God thrusteth him down, not man - This is no accidental thing that has happened to him: he is suffering under the just judgments of God, and therefore he…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom - That is, this has been permitted and ordered in such a manner that it might be manifest that the truths which are to convince him come from God and not from man. You were not permitted to refute or convince him, for if you had been you would have been lifted up with pride, and would have attributed to yourselves what belongs to God. This is in accordance with the entire drift of the book, which is to…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-14Verses 6-14 Elihu professes to speak by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and corrects both parties. He allowed that those who had the longest experience should speak first. But God gives wisdom as he pleases; this encouraged him to state his opinion. By attention to the word of God, and dependence upon the Holy Spirit, young men may become wiser than the aged; but this wisdom will render them swift to hear, slow to speak, and disposed to give others a…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-22After three rounds of speeches between Job and his friends, a new voice speaks. Elihu, a young man, has listened to everything the others said.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. This has been so ordered, "lest you should" pride yourselves on having overcome him by your "wisdom" (Jr 9:23, the great aim of the Book of Job); and that you may see, "God alone can thrust him down," that is, confute him, "not man." So Elihu grounds his confutation, not on the maxims of sages, as the friends did, but on his special commission from God (Job 32:8; 33:4, 6).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 32
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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