Job 13:2

Job's Fourth Speech Continues

¹ [Job continued:] “Behold, my eye has seen all this,
My ear has heard and understood it.
² 
“What you know I also know;
I am not inferior to you. ³
“But I wish to speak to the Almighty,
And I desire to argue with God.

Job

Job 12:3

“But I have intelligence and understanding as well as you;
I am not inferior to you.
Who does not know such things as these [of God’s wisdom and might]?

Job 15:8-9

“Do you hear the secret counsel of God,
And do you limit [the possession of] wisdom to yourself?

Job 34:35

‘Job speaks without knowledge,
And his words are without wisdom and insight.

Job 35:16

Job uselessly opens his mouth
And multiplies words without knowledge [drawing the worthless conclusion that the righteous have no more advantage than the wicked].”

Job 37:2

“Listen carefully to the thunder of His voice,
And the rumbling that goes out of His mouth!

Job 40:4-5

“Behold, I am of little importance and contemptible; what can I reply to You?
I lay my hand on my mouth.

Job 42:7

It came about that after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.

1 Corinthians 8:1-2

Now about food sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge [concerning this]. Knowledge [alone] makes [people self-righteously] arrogant, but love [that unselfishly seeks the best for others] builds up and encourages others to grow [in wisdom].

2 Corinthians 11:4-5

For [you seem willing to allow it] if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted. You tolerate all this beautifully [welcoming the deception].

2 Corinthians 11:16-18

I repeat then, let no one think that I am foolish; but even if you do, at least accept me as foolish, so that I too may boast a little.

2 Corinthians 12:11

Now I have become foolish; you have forced me [by questioning my apostleship]. Actually I should have been commended by you [instead of being treated disdainfully], for I was not inferior to those super-apostles, even if I am nobody.