Job 21:22

In 11 translations

BSB

Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?

KJV

Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

WEB

“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

ASV

Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judgeth those that are high?

LSV

Does [one] teach knowledge to God, || Since He judges [those] on high?

YLT

To God doth [one] teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge?

DBY

Can any teach God knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high.El

DRC

Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?

GNV

Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the highest things?

JPS

Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing it is He that judgeth those that are high.

LXXE

Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders?

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Original-language editions

WLC

הַלְאֵ֥ל יְלַמֶּד־דָּ֑עַת וְ֝ה֗וּא רָמִ֥ים יִשְׁפּֽוֹט׃

LXX-Br

Πότερον οὐχὶ ὁ Κύριός ἐστιν ὁ διδάσκων σύνεσιν καὶ ἐπιστήμην; αὐτὸς δὲ φόνους διακρίνει;

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Cross-references most cited first

• Romans 11:34“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
• 1 Corinthians 2:16“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
• Isaiah 40:13–14Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor? Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of…
• 2 Peter 2:4For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
• Isaiah 40:22–23He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. He brings the princes to nothing and makes…
• Job 4:18If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
• Isaiah 45:9Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
• Psalms 113:5–6Who is like the LORD our God, the One enthroned on high? He humbles Himself to behold the heavens and the earth.
• 1 Corinthians 6:3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!
• Ecclesiastes 5:8If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
• Job 15:15If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,
• Revelation 20:12–15And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books. The sea…
• Psalms 82:1God presides in the divine assembly; He renders judgment among the gods:
• Jude 1:6And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
• Revelation 20:1–3Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. And…
• Job 35:11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

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