Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

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.

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 for his house after him when the number of his months is cut off? 22 Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing he judges those who are high? 23 One man dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

Cross References

Romans 11:34

For who has known the mind of Lord? Or who became his counselor?

Isaiah 40:13-14

Who has {has known the mind (LXX/NT)} of LORD, or being his counselor has taught him?

1 Corinthians 2:16

For who has known the mind of Lord that he will stand with him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Job 4:18

Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his [heavenly] agents with folly.

Job 15:15

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

Job 34:17-19

Behold thou him who hates lawlessness, and who destroys evil men, who is forever righteousness,

Job 35:11

who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?

Job 36:22

Behold, God does loftily in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

Psalm 82:1

God stands in the congregation of God. He judges among the gods.

Psalm 113:5-6

Who is like LORD our God who has his seat on high,

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou see the oppression of a poor man, and the violent wresting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. For [a man] higher than the high is observing, and there are higher [men] than they.

Isaiah 40:22-23

[It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in,

Isaiah 45:9

Woe to him who strives with his maker, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What are thou making? or thy work, He has no hands?

1 Corinthians 6:3

Know ye not that we will judge heavenly agents? Then why not mundane things?

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare heavenly agents who sinned, but delivered them up to chains of darkness, having been cast into hell being reserved for judgment,

Jude 1:6

And the heavenly agents who did not keep their own principality, but left their own habitation, he has kept reserved in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Revelation 20:1-3

And I saw an agent coming down out of heaven having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

Revelation 20:12-15

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the one of life. And the dead were judged from the things that were written in the books, accordi

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