Parallel Verses

Amplified


He who instructs the nations,
Does He not rebuke and punish,
He who teaches man knowledge?

New American Standard Bible

He who chastens the nations, will He not rebuke,
Even He who teaches man knowledge?

King James Version

He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?

Holman Bible

The One who instructs nations,
the One who teaches man knowledge—
does He not discipline?

International Standard Version

The one who disciplines nations can rebuke them, can he not? The one who teaches mankind can discern, can he not?

A Conservative Version

He who chastises the nations, shall he not correct, [even] he who teaches man knowledge?

American Standard Version

He that chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct, Even he that teacheth man knowledge?

Bible in Basic English

He who is the judge of the nations, will he not give men the reward of their acts, even he who gives knowledge to man?

Darby Translation

He that instructeth the nations, shall not he correct he that teacheth man knowledge?

Julia Smith Translation

He chastising the nations, shall he not do justice? he teaching man knowledge.

King James 2000

He that chastises the nations, shall he not correct? he that teaches man knowledge, shall he not know?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Will [the] one who instructs nations not rebuke, the one who teaches humankind knowledge?

Modern King James verseion

He who chastens the nations, shall He not correct, He who teaches man knowledge?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He that nurtureth the Heathen, and teacheth a man knowledge, shall not he punish?

NET Bible

Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish? He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!

New Heart English Bible

He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish? He who teaches man knows.

The Emphasized Bible

He that correcteth nations, shall he not reprove? He that teacheth man knowledge!

Webster

He that chastiseth the heathen, shall he not correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall he not know?

World English Bible

He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish? He who teaches man knows.

Youngs Literal Translation

He who is instructing nations, Doth He not reprove? He who is teaching man knowledge is Jehovah.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
the heathen
גּי גּוי 
Gowy 
Usage: 558

shall not he correct
יכח 
Yakach 
Usage: 59

man
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

דּעת 
Da`ath 
Usage: 91

Context Readings

A Prayer For Retribution Against Oppressors

9
He who made the ear, does He not hear?
He who formed the eye, does He not see?
10 
He who instructs the nations,
Does He not rebuke and punish,
He who teaches man knowledge?
11
The Lord knows the thoughts of man,
That they are a mere breath (vain, empty, futile).


Cross References

Job 35:11


Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth
And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

Isaiah 28:26


For his God instructs [him correctly] and teaches him properly.

Psalm 44:2


You drove out the [pagan] nations with Your own hand;
Then you planted and established them (Israel);
[It was by Your power that] You uprooted the [pagan] peoples,
Then You spread them abroad.

Psalm 9:5


You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked and unrepentant;
You have wiped out their name forever and ever.

Psalm 10:16


The Lord is King forever and ever;
The nations will perish from His land.

Psalm 25:8-9


Good and upright is the Lord;
Therefore He instructs sinners in the way.

Psalm 119:66


Teach me good judgment (discernment) and knowledge,
For I have believed and trusted and relied on Your commandments.

Psalm 135:8-12


Who struck the firstborn of Egypt,
Both of man and animal;

Psalm 149:7


To execute vengeance on the nations
And punishment on the peoples,

Proverbs 2:6


For the Lord gives [skillful and godly] wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Isaiah 2:3


And many peoples shall come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house (temple) of the God of Jacob;
That He may teach us His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For the law will go out from Zion
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Isaiah 10:5-6


Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger [against Israel],
The staff in whose hand is My indignation and fury [against Israel’s disobedience]!

Isaiah 10:12

So when the Lord has completed all His work [of judgment] on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit [the thoughts, the declarations, and the actions] of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the haughtiness of his pride.”

Isaiah 37:36

And the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when the [surviving] men got up early the next morning, they saw all the dead.

Isaiah 54:13


“And all your [spiritual] sons will be disciples [of the Lord],
And great will be the well-being of your sons.

Jeremiah 10:25


Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know nor recognize You
And on the families that do not call Your name.
For they have devoured Jacob;
They have devoured him and consumed him
And made his land a desolate waste.

Ezekiel 39:21

“And I will bring [and manifest] My glory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment and justice [in the punishment] which I have executed and My hand which I have laid on them.

Amos 3:2


“I have known [chosen, cared for, and loved] only you of all the families of the earth;
Therefore I shall punish you for all your wickedness.”

Habakkuk 1:12


Are You not from everlasting,
O Lord, my God, My Holy One?
We will not die.
O Lord, You have appointed the Chaldeans [who rule in Babylon] to execute [Your] judgment,
And You, O Rock, have established them to correct and chastise.

Habakkuk 3:12


In indignation You marched through the earth;
In anger You trampled and threshed the nations.

John 6:45

It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught of God.’ Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father, comes to Me.

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