Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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

Amplified


“Can anyone teach God knowledge,
Seeing that He judges those 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 interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended? 22 Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high. 23 One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:

Cross References

Romans 11:34

Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes?

Isaiah 40:13-14

By whom has the spirit of the Lord been guided, or who has been his teacher?

1 Corinthians 2:16

For who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord, so as to be his teacher? But we have the mind of Christ.

Job 4:18

Truly, he puts no faith in his servants, and he sees error in his angels;

Job 15:15

Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;

Job 34:17-19

How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?

Job 35:11

Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?

Job 36:22

Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him?

Job 40:2

Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.

Psalm 82:1

God is in the meeting-place of God; he is judging among the gods.

Psalm 113:5-6

Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

Isaiah 40:22-23

It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.

Isaiah 45:9

Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

1 Corinthians 6:3

Is it not certain that we are to be the judges of angels? how much more then of the things of this life?

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;

Jude 1:6

And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.

Revelation 20:1-3

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

Revelation 20:12-15

And I saw the dead, great and small, taking their places before the high seat; and the books were open, and another book was open, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by the things which were in the books, even by their works.

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