Job 21:22
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing it is He that judgeth those that are high.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
In Context
21For what pleasure hath he in his house after him? seeing the number of his months is determined.
23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
Cross References
Job 15:15Behold, He putteth no trust in His holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.
Job 35:11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?'
Job 36:23Who hath enjoined Him His way? Or who hath said: 'Thou hast wrought unrighteousness'?
Job 40:2Shall he that reproveth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it.
Psalms 113:5Who is like unto the LORD our God, that is enthroned on high,
Isaiah 40:13Who hath meted out the spirit of the LORD? Or who was His counsellor that he might instruct 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 →