Job 21:22

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

Updated King James Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

21For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

23One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

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Cross References

Job 15:15Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

Job 35:11Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

Job 36:23Who has commanded with authority him his way? or who can say, You have wrought iniquity?

Job 40:2Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproves God, let him answer it.

Psalms 113:5Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwells on high,

Isaiah 40:13Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor has 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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