Job 33:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.

Job 33:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 36:5
Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
Ezekiel 18:25
Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
Jeremiah 18:6
O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Job 40:2
Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-13)

In these verses, I. Elihu particularly charges Job with some indecent expressions that had dropped from him, reflecting upon the justice and goodness of God in his dealings with him. He does not ground the charge upon report, but was himself an ear-witness of what he here reproves him for (Job 33:8): “ Thou hast spoken it in my hearing, and in the hearing of all this company.” He had it not at sec…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. in this--view of God and His government. It cannot be that God should jealously “watch” man, though “spotless,” as an “enemy,” or as one afraid of him as an equal. For “God is greater than man!” There must be sin in man, even though he be no hypocrite, which needs correction by suffering for the sufferer’s good.