These verses mean,

13. Say not, We have found wisdom,

God may thrust him down, not man;

14. For he hath not directed his words against me, &c.

Elihu refuses to let the three friends excuse themselves for their failure to answer Job by the plea that they had found an unexpected wisdom in him, against which human logic was of no avail, and which only God could overcome. Job's wisdom was not so invincible. It remained to be seen how it would come out of the encounter with another wisdom, different from that of the Friends: Job had not yet replied to Elihu's arguments, he has not directed his words against me(Job 32:14, cf. ch. Job 33:5), and these arguments would be found of another kind from those of the three friends.

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