Parallel Verses

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.

Holman Bible

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

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 delight shall he have in his house after him, being cut off in the number of his months? 22 “Can anyone teach God knowledge,
In that He judges those on high?
23 This one shall die in the full strength of his beauty, being completely at ease and quiet.

Cross References

Romans 11:34

For who has understood the intent of the Lord? or who has been his counsellor?

Isaiah 40:13-14

Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD or being his counsellor has taught him?

1 Corinthians 2:16

For who has known the understanding of the Lord? Who has instructed him? But we have the understanding of Christ.

Job 4:18

Behold, he put no trust in his slaves, and his angels he charged with folly.

Job 15:15

Behold, he puts no trust in his saints, and not even the heavens are clean in his sight.

Job 34:17-19

Shall even he that hates judgment govern? And wilt thou condemn the Mighty One that is righteous?

Job 35:11

who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

Job 36:22

Behold, God is exalted by his power; what teacher is like him?

Job 40:2

Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? Let him that disputes with God answer this.

Psalm 82:1

God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods.

Psalm 113:5-6

Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwells on high,

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou seest violence unto the poor and the extortion of rights and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for height is looking upon height; and there is one higher than they.

Isaiah 40:22-23

He is seated upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; he stretches out the heavens as a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:

Isaiah 45:9

Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What doth thou make; thy work has no form?

1 Corinthians 6:3

Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more the things that pertain to this life?

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not forgive the angels that sinned, but cast them down into the deepest abyss and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

Jude 1:6

And the angels who did not keep their first estate but left their own habitation, he has reserved in eternal chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Revelation 20:1-3

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

Revelation 20:12-15

And I saw the dead, great and small, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened; which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

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