Behold, God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like Him?
Parallel translations
- WEB Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
- KJV Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
- NKJV “Behold, God is exalted by His power; Who teaches like Him?
- NASB “Behold, God is exalted in His power; Who is a teacher like Him?
- NLT “Look, God is all-powerful. Who is a teacher like him?
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Quick answer
God is exalted in His power, and no teacher is like Him. His might and wisdom surpass all others.
Overview
Elihu lifts his eyes again to God's supreme power and unrivaled role as teacher. None can instruct or correct as God does, for His wisdom is matchless (Isa. 40:13-14). This exaltation of God as the incomparable teacher prepares for the LORD's own instruction in the whirlwind and points to Christ, the great Teacher who reveals the Father (Matt. 11:27).
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- 1 Sam 2:7–8The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
- Luke 1:52He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.
- Rom 13:1Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.
- Isa 48:17Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.
- Jer 27:5–8By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.
- Isa 14:5The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.
- Ps 75:7but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.
- Dan 5:18As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.
- Isa 54:13Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD, and great will be their prosperity.
- Jer 31:38“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this city will be rebuilt for Me, from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
- Job 35:11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
- Dan 4:25You will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will feed on grass like an ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.
- Ps 94:12Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
- Ps 94:10He who admonishes the nations, does He not discipline? He who teaches man, does He lack knowledge?
- Dan 4:32You will be driven away from mankind to live with the beasts of the field, and you will feed on grass like an ox. And seven times will pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.”
- John 6:45It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—
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