Job 21:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

Job 21:22 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 11:34
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
1 Corinthians 2:16
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Isaiah 40:13-14
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? …
Job 40:2
Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
Revelation 20:1-3
And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. …

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God God Guidance Lord Majesty Theology Trinity

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-26)

Job had largely described the prosperity of wicked people; now, in these verses, I. He opposes this to what his friends had maintained concerning their certain ruin in this life. “Tell me how often do you see the candle of the wicked put out? Do you not as often see it burnt down to the socket, until it goes out of itself? Job 21:17. How often do you see their destruction come upon them, or God di…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

22. Reply of Job, “In all these assertions you try to teach God how He ought to deal with men, rather than prove that He does in fact so deal with them. Experience is against you. God gives prosperity and adversity as it pleases Him, not as man’s wisdom would have it, on principles inscrutable to us” (Is 40:13; Ro 11:34). those ... high--the high ones, not only angels, but men (Is 2:12-17).