Job 21:22
Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders?
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
In Context
21For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off.
23One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous;
Cross References
Job 15:15Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him.
Job 35:11who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky?
Job 36:23And who is he that examines his works? or who can say, he has wrought injustice?
Job 40:2Nay, gird up now your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.
Psalms 113:5What ailed you, O sea, that you fled? and you Jordan, that you were turned back? 1
Isaiah 40:13+ 40:13 Rom 11:34 Who has known the mind of the Lord? and who has been his counsellor, to 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 →