Parallel Verses

Amplified


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

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?

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 pleasure does he have in his house and family after he is dead,
When the number of his months [of life] is cut off?
22 
“Can anyone teach God knowledge,
Seeing that He judges those on high?
23
“One dies in his full strength,
Being wholly at ease and quiet and satisfied;



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 has taught Him as His counselor?

1 Corinthians 2:16

For who has known the mind and purposes of the Lord, so as to instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ [to be guided by His thoughts and purposes].

Job 4:18


‘God puts no trust or confidence, even in His [heavenly] servants,
And He charges His angels with error.

Job 15:15


“Behold, God puts no trust in His holy ones (angels);
Indeed, the heavens are not pure in His sight—

Job 34:17-19


“Shall one who hates justice [and is an enemy of right] govern?
And will you condemn Him who is just and mighty?

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 is exalted in His power;
Who is a ruler or a teacher like Him?

Job 40:2


“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty?
Let him who disputes with God answer it.”

Psalm 82:1

God stands in the divine assembly;
He judges among the gods (divine beings).

Psalm 113:5-6


Who is like the Lord our God,
Who is enthroned on high,

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be shocked at the sight [of corruption]; for a higher official watches over another official, and there are higher ones over them [looking out for one another].

Isaiah 40:22-23


It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
[It is He] who stretches out the heavens like a veil
And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

Isaiah 45:9


“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who quarrels with his Maker—
A [worthless] piece of broken pottery among other broken pieces [equally worthless]!
Shall the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you doing?’
Or does the thing say, ‘He has no hands’?

1 Corinthians 6:3

Do you not know that we [believers] will judge angels? How much more then [as to] matters of this life?

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but threw them into hell and sent them to pits of gloom to be kept [there] for judgment;

Jude 1:6

And angels who did not keep their own designated place of power, but abandoned their proper dwelling place, [these] He has kept in eternal chains under [the thick gloom of utter] darkness for the judgment of the great day,

Revelation 20:1-3

And then I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding the key of the abyss (the bottomless pit) and a great chain was 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. Then another book was opened, which is the Book of Life; and the dead were judged according to what they had done as written in the books [that is, everything done while on earth].

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