So do not claim, 'We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.'
Cross References
Job 31:40then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley." Thus conclude the words of Job.
Job 32:12I paid you full attention. But no one proved Job wrong; not one of you rebutted his arguments.
Job 32:14But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.
Jeremiah 9:23This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.
Treasury of Scripture
Lest you should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusts him down, not man.
Lest
Genesis 14:23
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:
Judges 7:2
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.
Isaiah 48:5,7
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…
We
Job 12:2
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
Job 15:8-10
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? …
Isaiah 5:21
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
God
Job 1:21
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
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
By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
