Job 21:22

Job asks whether anyone can teach God knowledge, since He judges even the highest beings. He humbly acknowledges that God's wisdom surpasses all human understanding.

Cross-references · 19

• Rom 11:34“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
• 1 Cor 2:16“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
• Isa 40:13–14Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?
• Job 40:2“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”
• Isa 45:9Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
• Job 15:15If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,
• Ps 82:1A Psalm of Asaph. God presides in the divine assembly; He renders judgment among the gods:
• 1 Cor 6:3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!
• Rev 20:12–15And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
• Job 35:11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
• Jude 1:6And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
• Job 36:22Behold, God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like Him?
• Ps 113:5–6Who is like the LORD our God, the One enthroned on high?
• Isa 40:22–23He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
• Eccl 5:8If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
• Job 34:17–19Could one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the just and mighty One,
• Job 4:18If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
• 2 Pet 2:4For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
• Rev 20:1–3Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.

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