Job 21:22

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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

23One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.

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Cross References

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

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

Job 36:23Who can search out his ways? or who can say to him : Thou has wrought iniquity?

Job 40:2Gird up thy loins like a man : I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.

Psalms 113:5Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high:

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