the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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Job 21:22
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Can anyone teach God knowledge,since he judges the exalted ones?
"Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those who are high?
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?
"No one can teach knowledge to God; he is the one who judges even the most important people.
Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?
"Can anyone teach God knowledge, In that He judges those on high?
"Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those who are high?
Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the hiest things?
Can anyone teach God knowledge,In that He judges those on high?
Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?
Who can tell God what to do? He judges powerful rulers.
"Can anyone teach God knowledge? After all, he judges those who are on high.
Can any teach God knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high.
"No one can teach God anything he doesn't already know. God judges even those in high places.
Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing it is he who judges the proud?
Can anyone teach God, who judges even those in high places?
Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he himself judges high ones?
Shall any teach God knowledge, since He shall judge those exalted?
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Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judgeth those that are high?
Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high.
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing it is He that judgeth those that are high.
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he iudgeth those that are high.
Seeing God hath the highest power of all, who can teache him any knowledge?
Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders?
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
Whether ony man schal teche God kunnyng, which demeth hem that ben hiye?
Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those that are high?
Shall [any] teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
"Can anyone teach God knowledge, Since He judges those on high?
"But who can teach a lesson to God, since he judges even the most powerful?
Can anyone teach God anything, when He judges those on high?
Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those that are on high?
Is it, to GOD, one can teach knowledge, seeing that, he, shall judge, them who are on high?
Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?
Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those that are on high?
To God doth [one] teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge?
"But who are we to tell God how to run his affairs? He's dealing with matters that are way over our heads. Some people die in the prime of life, with everything going for them— fat and sassy. Others die bitter and bereft, never getting a taste of happiness. They're laid out side by side in the cemetery, where the worms can't tell one from the other.
"Can anyone teach God knowledge, In that He judges those on high?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
teach: Job 40:2, Isaiah 40:13, Isaiah 40:14, Isaiah 45:9, Romans 11:34, 1 Corinthians 2:16
he judgeth: Job 34:17-19, Psalms 113:5, Psalms 113:6, Ecclesiastes 5:8, Isaiah 40:22, Isaiah 40:23, 1 Corinthians 6:3, 2 Peter 2:4, Jude 1:6, Revelation 20:1-3, Revelation 20:12-15
Reciprocal: Luke 4:27 - Naaman
Cross-References
Abraham said [again] of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." So Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah [into his harem].
So Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maids, and they again gave birth to children,
So Sarah conceived and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.
Abraham named his son Isaac (laughter), the son to whom Sarah gave birth.
Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath, his [close friend and confidential] adviser, and Phicol, the commander of his army.
They said, "We see clearly that the LORD has been with you; so we said, 'There should now be an oath between us [with a curse for the one who breaks it], that is, between you and us, and let us make a covenant (binding agreement, solemn promise) with you,
"Behold, I am with you and will keep [careful watch over you and guard] you wherever you may go, and I will bring you back to this [promised] land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
But Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your sight, stay with me; for I have learned [from the omens in divination and by experience] that the LORD has blessed me because of you."
The LORD said to Joshua, "This day I will begin to magnify and exalt you in the sight of all Israel, so that they may know that just as I was with Moses, I will [also] be with you.
Solomon the son of David established himself securely over his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him and made him exceedingly great.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Shall [any] teach God knowledge?.... Who is a God of knowledge, and knows all things, that teaches men knowledge; will any one take upon him to teach him the path of judgment, and the way of understanding, how he shall govern the world, and dispose of men and things in it? see Isaiah 40:13. Will anyone be so bold and audacious as to pretend to direct and instruct him whom he shall afflict, and whom not, and when he shall do it, and in what manner? should not these things be left to him, who does all things after the counsel of his own will? shall his dealings with men in an outward way of providence be the criterions of the characters and estates of men, as if love and hatred were to be known by those things, and therefore God must be taught what he should do in order to fix them?
seeing he judgeth those that are high; not the high heavens, as the Targum, nor the angels in them, though he has judged them that sinned, and cast them down to hell; but the high ones on earth, kings, princes, and civil magistrates, such as are in high places, and are lifted up with pride above others: God is above them; he is higher than the highest, and judges them; he is the Judge of all the earth, that will do right, the Governor of the universe, and who overrules all things for his own glory and the good of his creatures; and therefore none should pretend to direct him what is fit and proper to be done by him, who is a Sovereign, and distinguishes men in his providence, in life, and at death, as follows; but their characters, as good or bad men, are not to be determined thereby.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Shall any teach God knowledge? - This commences the reply of Job to the sentiments of his friends to which he had just adverted. The substance of the reply is, that no one could prescribe to God how he should deal with people, and that it; was not a FACT that people were treated as they had supposed. Instead of its being true, as they maintained, that wicked people would all be cut down in some fearful and violent manner, as a punishment for their sins, Job goes on Job 21:23-26 to show that they died in a great variety of ways - one in full age and prosperity, and another in another manner. This, he says, God directs as he pleases. No one can teach him knowledge; no one can tell him what he ought to do. The reasoning of his friends, Job seems to imply, had been rather an attempt to teach God how he “ought” to deal with people, than a patient and candid inquiry into the “facts” in the case, and he says the facts were not as they supposed they ought to be.
Seeing he judgeth those that are high - Or rather, he judges “among the things” that are high. He rules over the great affairs of the universe, and it is presumptuous in us to attempt to prescribe to him how he shall govern the world. The design of this and the following verses is to show, that, from the manner in which people actually die, no argument can be derived to determine what was their religious condition, or their real character. Nothing is more fallacious than that kind of reasoning.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 21:22. Shall any teach God knowledge? — Who among the sons of men can pretend to teach GOD how to govern the world, who himself teaches those that are high-the heavenly inhabitants, that excel us infinitely both in knowledge and wisdom? Neither angels nor men can comprehend the reasons of the Divine providence. It is a depth known only to God.
