Job 21:22
Can anyone teach God anything he doesn't already know, since he is the one who judges even heavenly beings?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
In Context
21For they don't care what happens to their families once they're dead.
23One person dies in good health, totally comfortable and secure.
Cross References
Job 15:15Look, God doesn't even trust his angels—even the heavenly beings are not pure in his sight!
Job 35:11who teaches us more than the animals, and makes us wiser than the birds?’
Job 36:23Who has instructed him what to do? Who can say to him ‘You have done wrong’?
Job 40:2“Are you still going to fight with the Almighty and try to set him straight? Anyone who argues with God must give some answers.”
Psalms 113:5Who is like the Lord our God? He is the one who lives on high, seated on his throne.
Isaiah 40:13Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or taught him what to do as his counselor?
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 →