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 do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off? 22 “Can anyone teach God knowledge,
In that He judges those on high?
23 One dies in his full vigor, being wholly at ease and secure,

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 measured the Spirit of the LORD, or what man shows him his counsel?

1 Corinthians 2:16

"For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

Job 4:18

Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;

Job 15:15

Behold, Godputs no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;

Job 34:17-19

Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous 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 teacher like him?

Job 40:2

"Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

Psalm 82:1

God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:

Psalm 113:5-6

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

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

Isaiah 40:22-23

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

Isaiah 45:9

"Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?' or 'Your work has no handles'?

1 Corinthians 6:3

Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;

Jude 1:6

And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day--

Revelation 20:1-3

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.

Revelation 20:12-15

And I saw the dead, great and 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 by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.

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