Parallel Verses

King James 2000

Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judges those that 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?

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.

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

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 being his counselor has taught him?

1 Corinthians 2:16

For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Job 4:18

Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged 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

Shall even he that hates right govern? and will you condemn him that is most just?

Job 35:11

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

Job 36:22

Behold, God exalts by his power: who teaches like him?

Job 40:2

Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproves God, let him answer it.

Psalm 82:1

[A Psalm of Asaph.] God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods.

Psalm 113:5-6

Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwells on high,

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for the high official is watched by a higher one; and there are yet higher ones over them.

Isaiah 40:22-23

It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:

Isaiah 45:9

Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What do you make? or of your work, He has no hands?

1 Corinthians 6:3

Know you not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

2 Peter 2:4

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

Jude 1:6

And the angels who kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Revelation 20:1-3

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

Revelation 20:12-15

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

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