Job 21:22
Good News Translation
Can anyone teach God, who judges even those in high places?

New Revised Standard Version
Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those that are on high?

Contemporary English Version
Who can tell God what to do? He judges powerful rulers. *

New American Bible
Can anyone teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those on high?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?

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Job 40:2 Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him.

Isaiah 40:13,14 Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor, and hath taught him? . . .

Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and thy work is without hands?

Romans 11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?

1 Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

he judgeth

Job 34:17-19 Can he be healed that loveth not judgment? and how dost thou so far condemn him that is just? . . .

Psalm 113:5,6 Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high: . . .

Ecclesiastes 5:8 If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:

Isaiah 40:22,23 It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. . . .

1 Corinthians 6:3 Know you not that we shall judge angels? How much more things of this world?

2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment:

Jude 1:6 And the angels who kept not their principality but forsook their own habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains, unto the judgment of the great day.

Revelation 20:1-3,12-15 And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. . . .

Context
Job: God will Punish the Wicked
21For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half? 22Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?23One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.…
Cross References
Romans 11:34
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?

Job 4:18
Behold, they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:

Job 15:15
Behold among his saints none is unchangeable, and the heavens are not pure in his sight.

Job 21:21
For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?

Job 35:11
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.

Job 36:22
Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like him among the lawgivers.

Psalm 82:1
A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

Isaiah 40:14
With whom hath he consulted, and who hath instructed him, and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?

Job 21:21
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