And don’t tell me,‘ He is too wise for us. Only God can convince him.’

你们切不可说：我们寻得智慧；神能胜他，人却不能。

你们切不可说：‘我们寻得智慧；上帝能胜他，人却不能。’

你们切不可说：‘我们寻得智慧；神能胜他，人却不能。’

你们不要说，‘我们找到了智慧，使他折服的是上帝而非人。’

你们不要说：‘我们寻得了智慧；能胜过他的，是神，不是人。’

你們切不可說：我們尋得智慧；神能勝他，人卻不能。

你們切不可說：『我們尋得智慧；上帝能勝他，人卻不能。』

你們切不可說：『我們尋得智慧；神能勝他，人卻不能。』

你們不要說，『我們找到了智慧，使他折服的是上帝而非人。』

你們不要說：‘我們尋得了智慧；能勝過他的，是神，不是人。’

你們切不可說：「我們尋得了智慧了」；不，是上帝能使他敗北的，並不是人。

勿謂我儕得見智慧、惟上帝能折之、人則不能、

是理有未明故也、能斥之者惟上帝、人則不能。

恐爾言、我儕雖得智慧、亦徒然也、能駁駁或作斥之者惟天主、人則不能、

Do not say,‘ We have found wisdom; let God, not a man, refute him.’

Don’t claim,‘ We have enough wisdom to answer Job.’ Let God, not a mere man, prove that he’s wrong.

Beware lest you say,‘ We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not a man.’

So do not claim,“ We have found wisdom; let God deal with him, not man.”

So do not say,‘ We have found wisdom: God will defeat him, not man.’

Lest you say,‘ We have found wisdom’; God will vanquish him, not man.

Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man:

So do not claim,“ We have found wisdom; let God deal with him, not man.”

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

So do not say,‘ We have found wisdom! God will refute him, not man!’

Beware lest you say,‘ We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’

This is what the Lord says:“ Don’t let the wise boast in their wisdom, or the powerful boast in their power, or the rich boast in their riches.

“ Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for the hand of God has struck me.

Stop deceiving yourselves. If you think you are wise by this world’s standards, you need to become a fool to be truly wise.

What sorrow for those who are wise in their own eyes and think themselves so clever.

that I will not take so much as a single thread or sandal thong from what belongs to you. Otherwise you might say,‘ I am the one who made Abram rich.’

Were you listening at God’s secret council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?What do you know that we don’t? What do you understand that we do not?On our side are aged, gray haired men much older than your father!

The Lord said to Gideon,“ You have too many warriors with you. If I let all of you fight the Midianites, the Israelites will boast to me that they saved themselves by their own strength.

As the Scriptures say,“ I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and discard the intelligence of the intelligent.”So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world’s brilliant debaters? God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish.Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe.

You regard yourself as wiser than Daniel and think no secret is hidden from you.

For the Almighty has struck me down with his arrows. Their poison infects my spirit. God’s terrors are lined up against me.

Then Jesus said,“ You would have no power over me at all unless it were given to you from above. So the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”

“ The Lord will give victory to the rest of Judah first, before Jerusalem, so that the people of Jerusalem and the royal line of David will not have greater honor than the rest of Judah.

But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in his net.

But Job replied,“ You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.

He said,“ I came naked from my mother’s womb, and I will be naked when I leave. The Lord gave me what I had, and the Lord has taken it away. Praise the name of the Lord!”

Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful.God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important.As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God.

They are brand new, not things from the past. So you cannot say,‘ We knew that all the time!’

“ You people really know everything, don’t you? And when you die, wisdom will die with you!

A breath from God destroys them. They vanish in a blast of his anger.

That is why I told you what would happen; I told you beforehand what I was going to do. Then you could never say,‘ My idols did it. My wooden image and metal god commanded it to happen!’