that I will not take a thread or sandal strap or anything that belongs to you, so you can never say, “I made Abram rich.”
Job 32:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised So do not claim, ‘We have found wisdom; let God deal with him, not man.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Beware lest you say, We have found wisdom; God thrusts [Job] down [justly], not man [God alone is dealing with him]. American Standard Version (1901) Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man: Common English Bible Be careful you don’t say, “We’ve found wisdom; God, not a person, will defeat him.” Catholic Public Domain Version So that you will not say, "We have found wisdom," God has thrown him down, not man. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Lest you should say: We have found wisdom. God hath cast him down, not man. |
that I will not take a thread or sandal strap or anything that belongs to you, so you can never say, “I made Abram rich.”
saying: Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will leave this life. , The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for God’s hand has struck me.
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and caught me in his net.
‘You speak as a foolish woman speaks,’ he told her. ‘Should we accept only good from God and not adversity? ’ Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.
then let thorns grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are concluded.
I paid close attention to you. Yet no one proved Job wrong; not one of you refuted his arguments.
But Job has not directed his argument to me, and I will not respond to him with your arguments.
They perish at a single blast from God and come to an end by the breath of his nostrils.
Surely the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks their poison. God’s terrors are arrayed against me.
therefore I declared to you long ago. I announced it to you before it occurred, so you could not claim, “My idol caused them; my carved image and cast idol control them.”
They have been created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today, so you could not claim, “I already knew them! ”
Woe to those who consider themselves wise and judge themselves clever. ,
‘ “This is what the Lord says: The wise person should not boast in his wisdom; the strong should not boast in his strength; the wealthy should not boast in his wealth.
The Lord will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of David’s house and the glory of Jerusalem’s residents may not be greater than that of Judah.
‘You would have no authority over me at all,’ Jesus answered him, ‘if it hadn’t been given to you from above. This is why the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.’
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become a fool so that he can become wise.
The Lord said to Gideon, ‘You have too many troops for me to hand the Midianites over to them, or else Israel might elevate themselves over me and say, “I saved myself.”