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“For 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, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.
• Isa 40:13–14Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?
• Job 40:2“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
• Isa 45:9Woe to him who strives with his Maker — a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’
• Job 15:15Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
• Ps 82:1A Psalm by Asaph. God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.
• 1 Cor 6:3Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
• Rev 20:12–15I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
• Job 35:11who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
• Jude 1:6Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
• Job 36:22Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
• Ps 113:5–6Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,
• Isa 40:22–23It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who 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 violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
• Job 34:17–19Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty? —
• Job 4:18Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
• 2 Pet 2:4For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
• Rev 20:1–3I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

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