Job 33:12
Good News Translation
But I tell you, Job, you are wrong. God is greater than any human being.

New Revised Standard Version
“But in this you are not right. I will answer you: God is greater than any mortal.

Contemporary English Version
But, Job, you're wrong--God is greater than any human.

New American Bible
In this you are not just, let me tell you; for God is greater than mortals.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.

thou

Job 1:22 In all these things Job sinned not by his lips, nor spoke he any foolish thing against God.

Job 34:10-12,17-19,23 Therefore, ye men of understanding, hear me: far from God be wickedness, and iniquity from the Almighty. . . .

Job 35:2 Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God?

Job 36:22,23 Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like him among the lawgivers. . . .

Ezekiel 18:25 And you have said: The way of the Lord is not right. Hear ye, therefore, O house of Israel: Is it my way that is not right, and are not rather your ways perverse?

Romans 9:19-21 Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For who resisteth his will? . . .

I will

Job 32:17 I also will answer my part, and will shew my knowledge.

Job 35:4 Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.

God

Job 9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?

Job 26:14 Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we have heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the thunder of his greatness?

Job 36:5 God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is mighty.

Job 40:2,8,9 Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him. . . .

Jeremiah 18:6 Cannot I do with you, as this potter, O house of Israel, saith the Lord? behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

Context
Elihu Rebukes Job
11He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths. 12Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.13Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?…
Cross References
Job 11:7
Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly?

Ecclesiastes 7:20
For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

Job 33:11
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