Job 32:13
So do not claim, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.’
BSB
ASV
Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man:
KJV
Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.
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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.
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Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
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But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor…
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,
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1 Corinthians 3:18Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.
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Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Lest 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 introduce the Almighty himself to settle the controversy when human wisdom failed.
It is time to speak when God's judgments are vouched for the patronizing of men's pride and passion and their unjust uncharitable censures of their brethren; then we must speak on God's behalf.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.