Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Can anyone teach God knowledge,
since He judges the exalted ones?

New American Standard Bible

“Can anyone teach God knowledge,
In that He judges those on high?

King James Version

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

International Standard Version

"Can God learn anything? After all, he will judge even the exalted ones.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“Can anyone teach God knowledge,
Seeing that He judges those on high?

Bible in Basic English

Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Shall he teach knowledge to God? and he will judge those lifted up.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he himself judges high ones?

Modern King James verseion

Shall any teach God knowledge, since He shall judge the exalted?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Inasmuch then as God hath the highest power of all, who can teach him any knowledge?

NET Bible

Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?

New Heart English Bible

"Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing he judges those who are high?

The Emphasized Bible

Is it, to GOD, one can teach knowledge, seeing that, he, shall judge, them who are on high?

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
God
אל 
'el 
Usage: 114

דּעת 
Da`ath 
Usage: 91

שׁפט 
Shaphat 
Usage: 203

Context Readings

Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar

21 For what does he care about his family once he is dead,
when the number of his months has run out?
22 Can anyone teach God knowledge,
since He judges the exalted ones?
23 One person dies in excellent health,
completely secure and at ease.



Cross References

Romans 11:34

For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been His counselor?

Isaiah 40:13-14

Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord,
or who gave Him His counsel?

1 Corinthians 2:16

For

who has known the Lord’s mind,
that he may instruct Him?


But we have the mind of Christ.

Job 4:18

If God puts no trust in His servants
and He charges His angels with foolishness,

Job 15:15

If God puts no trust in His holy ones
and the heavens are not pure in His sight,

Job 34:17-19

Could one who hates justice govern the world?
Will you condemn the mighty Righteous One,

Job 35:11

who gives us more understanding than the animals of the earth
and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?”

Job 36:22

Look, God shows Himself exalted by His power.
Who is a teacher like Him?

Job 40:2

Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him?
Let him who argues with God give an answer.

Psalm 82:1

A psalm of Asaph.God has taken His place in the divine assembly;
He judges among the gods:

Psalm 113:5-6

Who is like Yahweh our God—
the One enthroned on high,

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.

Isaiah 40:22-23

God is enthroned above the circle of the earth;
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

Isaiah 45:9

“Woe to the one who argues with his Maker—
one clay pot among many.
Does clay say to the one forming it,
‘What are you making?’
Or does your work say,
‘He has no hands’?

1 Corinthians 6:3

Don’t you know that we will judge angels—not to mention ordinary matters?

2 Peter 2:4

For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus and delivered them to be kept in chains of darkness until judgment;

Jude 1:6

and He has kept, with eternal chains in darkness for the judgment of the great day, the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling.

Revelation 20:1-3

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

Revelation 20:12-15

I also saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged according to their works by what was written in the books.

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