Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

To God doth one teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge?

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?

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 is his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off? 22 To God doth one teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge? 23 This one dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet.

Cross References

Romans 11:34

for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor?

Isaiah 40:13-14

Who hath meted out the Spirit of Jehovah, And, being His counsellor, doth teach Him!

1 Corinthians 2:16

for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we -- we have the mind of Christ.

Job 4:18

Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.'

Job 15:15

Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.

Job 34:17-19

Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?

Job 35:11

Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'

Job 36:22

Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who is like Him -- a teacher?

Job 40:2

Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.

Psalm 82:1

-- A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge.

Psalm 113:5-6

Who is as Jehovah our God, He is exalting Himself to sit?

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones are over them.

Isaiah 40:22-23

He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.

Isaiah 45:9

Woe to him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, 'What dost thou?' And thy work, 'He hath no hands?'

1 Corinthians 6:3

have ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?

2 Peter 2:4

For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast them down to Tartarus, did deliver them to judgment, having been reserved,

Jude 1:6

messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,

Revelation 20:1-3

And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand,

Revelation 20:12-15

and I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and scrolls were opened, and another scroll was opened, which is that of the life, and the dead were judged out of the things written in the scrolls -- according to their works;

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