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Literal Standard Version
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, Seeing that He judges those 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
and Abraham says concerning his wife Sarah, "She is my sister"; and Abimelech king of Gerar sends and takes Sarah.
And Abraham prays to God, and God heals Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bear:
and Sarah conceives, and bears a son to Abraham, to his old age, at the appointed time that God has spoken of with him;
and Abraham calls the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah has borne to him—Isaac;
And Abimelech has gone to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phichol head of his host;
And they say, "We have certainly seen that YHWH has been with you, and we say, Now let there be an oath between us, between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you;
And behold, I [am] with you, and have kept you wherever you go, and have caused you to return to this ground; for I do not leave you until I have surely done that which I have spoken to you."
And Laban says to him, "Now if I have found grace in your eyes—I have observed diligently that YHWH blesses me for your sake."
And YHWH says to Joshua, "This day I begin to make you great in the eyes of all Israel, so that they know that as I was with Moses I am with you;
And Solomon son of David strengthens himself over his kingdom, and his God YHWH [is] with him, and makes 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.
