Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Inasmuch then as God hath the highest power of all, who can teach him any knowledge?

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?

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 careth he, what become of his household after his death, when the number of his months is cut short? 22 Inasmuch then as God hath the highest power of all, who can teach him any knowledge? 23 One dieth now when he is mighty and at his best, rich and in prosperity;



Cross References

Romans 11:34

For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who was his counselor?

Isaiah 40:13-14

Who hath reformed the mind of the LORD? Or who is of his counsel to teach him?

1 Corinthians 2:16

"For who knoweth the mind of the Lord, other who shall inform him?" But we understand the mind of Christ.

Job 4:18

Behold, he hath found unfaithfulness among his own servants, and proud disobedience among his angels.

Job 15:15

Behold, he doth not trust his saints; yea, the very heavens are not clean in his sight.

Job 34:17-19

May he be made whole, that loveth no right? If thou were a very innocent man, shouldest thou then be punished?

Job 35:11

Which giveth us more understanding than he doth the beasts of the earth, and teacheth us more than the fouls of heaven?'

Job 36:22

Behold, God is of a mighty high power: Where is there such a guide and lawgiver as he?

Job 40:2

"Can he that striveth with the Almighty be at rest? Should not he which disputeth with God, give him an answer?"

Psalm 82:1

{A Psalm of Asaph} God standeth in the congregation of princes, and is a Judge among the judges.

Psalm 113:5-6

Who is like unto the LORD our God, that hath his dwelling so high;

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou seest the poor to be oppressed and wrongfully dealt withal, so that equity and the right of the law is wrested in the land: marvel not thou at such judgment, for one great man keepeth touch with another, and the mighty help themselves together.

Isaiah 40:22-23

That he sitteth upon the Circle of the world, and that all the inhabiters of the world are, in comparison of him, but as grasshoppers; That he spreadeth out the heavens as a covering, he stretcheth them out as a tent to dwell in;

Isaiah 45:9

Woe be unto him that chideth with his maker, the potsherd with the potter. Sayeth the clay to the potter, "What makest thou?" or "Thy work serveth for nothing?"

1 Corinthians 6:3

Know ye not how that we shall judge the angels? How much more may we judge things that pertain to the life?

2 Peter 2:4

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

Jude 1:6

The angels also, which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath 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, both great and small, stand before God: And the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged of those things which were written in the books according to their deeds.

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