Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

"Can God learn anything? After all, he will judge even the exalted ones.

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?

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 What will they care for their household after them, when the number of his months comes to an end?" 22 "Can God learn anything? After all, he will judge even the exalted ones. 23 Such persons will die in their full vigor, completely prosperous and secure.



Cross References

Romans 11:34

Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become his advisor?

Isaiah 40:13-14

Who has fathomed the Spirit of the LORD, or as his counselor has taught him?

1 Corinthians 2:16

For "Who has known the mind of the Lord so that he can advise him?" However, we have the mind of the Messiah.

Job 4:18

"Indeed, since he doesn't trust his servants, since he charges his angels with error,

Job 15:15

Look, if God doesn't trust his holy ones, if even the heavens aren't pure as he looks at them,

Job 34:17-19

Can one who hates justice really govern? And if God is righteous and mighty, can you condemn him?

Job 35:11

who teaches us more than the earth's wild animals, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

Job 36:22

"Indeed, God is exalted in his power. Who is like him as a teacher?

Job 40:2

"Should the one who is fighting the Almighty find fault with him? Let God's accuser answer."

Psalm 82:1

God takes his stand in the divine assembly; among the divine beings he renders judgment:

Psalm 113:5-6

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

Ecclesiastes 5:8

Don't be surprised when you see the poor oppressed and the violent perverting both justice and verdicts in a province, for one high official watches another, and there are ones higher still over them.

Isaiah 40:22-23

He's the one who sits above the disk of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. He's the one who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in,

Isaiah 45:9

"Woe to the one who quarrels with his makers, a mere potsherd with the potsherds of the earth! Woe to the one who says to the one forming him, "What are you making?' or "Your work has no human hands?'!

1 Corinthians 6:3

You know that we will rule angels, not to mention things in this life, don't you?

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but threw them into the lowest hell and imprisoned them in chains of deepest darkness, holding them for judgment;

Jude 1:6

He has also held in eternal chains those angels who did not keep their own position but abandoned their assigned place. They are held in deepest darkness for judgment on the great day.

Revelation 20:1-3

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

Revelation 20:12-15

I saw the dead, both unimportant and important, standing in front of the throne, and books were open. Another book was opened the Book of Life. The dead were judged according to their actions, as recorded in the books.

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