Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

He who chastens the nations, shall He not correct, 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?

Amplified


He who instructs the nations,
Does He not rebuke and punish,
He who teaches 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 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 planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see? 10 He who chastens the nations, shall He not correct, He who teaches man knowledge? 11 Jehovah knows the thoughts of man, that they are vain.

Cross References

Job 35:11

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?

Isaiah 28:26

For his God instructs him to do right; his God teaches him.

Psalm 44:2

You drove out the nations with Your hand, and planted them; You brought evil on peoples and cast them out.

Psalm 9:5

You have rebuked the heathen, You have destroyed the wicked, You have put out their name forever and ever.

Psalm 10:16

Jehovah is King forever and ever; the nations have perished out of His land.

Psalm 25:8-9

Good and upright is Jehovah; therefore He will teach sinners in the way.

Psalm 119:66

Teach me good judgment and knowledge; for I have believed Your Commandments.

Psalm 135:8-12

He who struck the first-born of Egypt, both of man and animal;

Psalm 149:7

to carry out vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,

Proverbs 2:6

For Jehovah gives wisdom; out of His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Isaiah 2:3

And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob. And He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths. For out of Zion shall go out the Law, and the Word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

Isaiah 10:5-6

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger! And the staff in their hand is My fury.

Isaiah 10:12

And it will be, when the Lord has broken off all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks.

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. And they rose early in the morning, and behold! They were all dead corpses.

Isaiah 54:13

And all your sons shall be taught of Jehovah; and great shall be the peace of your sons.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out Your fury on the nations who do not know You, and on the families who do not call on Your name; for they have eaten up Jacob and have devoured him, and have destroyed him, and have made his dwelling desolate.

Ezekiel 39:21

And I will set My glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see My judgments which I have done, and My hand that I have laid on them.

Amos 3:2

You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Habakkuk 1:12

Are You not from everlasting, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Jehovah, You have ordained them for judgment; and, my Rock, You have established them for correction.

Habakkuk 3:12

You march into the land in fury; You thresh nations in anger.

John 6:45

It is written in the Prophets, "And they shall all be taught of God." Therefore everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to Me.

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