Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he himself judges high 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?

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.

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 {does he care for} his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off? 22 Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he himself judges high ones? 23 This [one] dies {in full prosperity}, {completely} 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 up the spirit of Yahweh or informed him [as] {his counselor}?

1 Corinthians 2:16

"For who has known the mind of the Lord; who has advised him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

Job 4:18

Look, he does not trust in his servants and he charges his angels with error.

Job 15:15

Look, he does not trust his holy ones, and [the] heavens are not clean in his eyes.

Job 34:17-19

Shall [he who] hates justice really govern? Or will you declare [the] Righteous One, the Mighty, guilty?--

Job 35:11

[who] teaches us more than [the] animals of [the] earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'

Job 36:22

"Look, God is exalted in his power; who [is] a teacher like him?

Job 40:2

"Shall a faultfinder contend with Shaddai? Anyone who argues with God must answer it."

Psalm 82:1

God stands in the divine assembly; he administers judgment in the midst of [the] gods.

Psalm 113:5-6

Who [is] like Yahweh our God, who [is] enthroned on high,

Ecclesiastes 5:8

Do not be surprised if you see the poor being oppressed with violence or [do not see] justice and righteousness in the province. For one official is watched by a higher official, and [there are] even higher officials over them!

Isaiah 40:22-23

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

Isaiah 45:9

Woe [to the] one who strives with his {maker}, a potsherd among potsherds of earth! Does [the] clay say to the one who fashions it, 'What are you making?' and 'Your work has no hands'?

1 Corinthians 6:3

Do you not know that we will judge angels, not to mention ordinary matters?

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but held [them] captive in Tartarus with chains of darkness [and] handed [them] over to be kept for judgment,

Jude 1:6

And [the] angels who did not keep to their own domain but deserted their proper dwelling place, he has kept in eternal bonds under deep gloom for the judgment of the great day,

Revelation 20:1-3

And I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain 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. And another book was opened, which is the [book] of life, and the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds.

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