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 11:34For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
• 1 Cor 2:16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
• Isa 40:13–14Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
• Job 40:2Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
• Isa 45:9Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
• Job 15:15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
• Ps 82:1God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
• 1 Cor 6:3Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
• Rev 20:12–15And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
• Job 35:11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
• Jude 1:6And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
• Job 36:22Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
• Ps 113:5–6Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
• Isa 40:22–23It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
• Eccl 5:8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
• Job 34:17–19Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
• Job 4:18Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
• 2 Pet 2:4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
• Rev 20:1–3And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

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