Job 21:22

Can anyone teach holy knowledge to God, who judges the exalted?

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In The King James Version

Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

In Context

21For what does he care what happens to his house after him, or if the number of its months are reduced by half?

23This one dies strong and healthy, rich and happy.

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Cross References

Job 15:15Behold, among his holy ones not one is immutable, and even the heavens are not pure in his sight.

Job 35:11who teaches us in addition to the beasts of the earth, and who educates us along with the birds of the air?”

Job 36:23Who is able to investigate his ways? And who can say, “You have done iniquity,” to him?

Job 40:2Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.

Psalms 113:5What happened to you, O sea, so that you fled, and to you, O Jordan, so that you were turned back again?

Isaiah 40:13Who has assisted the Spirit of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor and has revealed things to him?

Matthew Henry on Job 21:18-27

Certain Punishments of the Wicked; Divine Sovereignty. ( b. c. 1520.) 17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. 19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him,… Read the whole commentary →

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