Job 21:22

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“To God doth <FI>one<Fi> teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 21:22 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 4:18If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
  2. Job 15:15If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,
  3. Job 34:17Could one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the just and mighty One,
  4. Job 35:11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
  5. Job 36:22Behold, God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like Him?
  6. Job 36:23Who has appointed His way for Him, or told Him, ‘You have done wrong’?
  7. Job 38:3Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
  8. Job 40:2“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”
  9. Psalms 82:1God presides in the divine assembly; He renders judgment among the gods:
  10. Psalms 113:5Who is like the LORD our God, the One enthroned on high?
  11. 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.
  12. Isaiah 40:13Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?
  13. Isaiah 40:22He 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.
  14. 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’?
  15. Jeremiah 23:18But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and obeyed it?
  16. Romans 11:34“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
  17. 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.
  18. 1 Corinthians 6:3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!
  19. 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;
  20. 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.
  21. Revelation 20:1Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.
  22. Revelation 20:12And 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.

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