Job 33:12 - Revised Standard Version “Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you. God is greater than man. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I reply to you, Behold, in this you are not just; God is superior to man. American Standard Version (1901) Behold, I will answer thee, in this thou art not just; For God is greater than man. Common English Bible Now you’re wrong about this; I’ll answer you, for God is greater than anybody. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, it is for this reason that you have not been justified. For I tell you that God is greater than man. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified. I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. |
and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
“Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways; and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”
For he has not appointed a time for any man to go before God in judgment.
“Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’
“Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength —who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? says the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?