Job 21:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judgeth those that are high?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַלְאֵ֥ל יְלַמֶּד־דָּ֑עַת וְ֝ה֗וּא רָמִ֥ים יִשְׁפּֽוֹט׃

Transliteration

ha-lə-ʾēl yəlammed-dāʿat wə-hûʾ rāmîm yišpôṭ

Grammar Details

• *ha-lə-ʾēl*: interrogative particle + preposition + noun masculine singular - to God
• *yəlammed*: Piel imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - one teaches
• *dāʿat*: noun feminine singular - knowledge
• *wə-hûʾ*: conjunctive waw + 3rd person masculine singular independent pronoun - and he
• *rāmîm*: adjective masculine plural - exalted ones/high places
• *yišpôṭ*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he judges

Word Meanings

• *ʾēl*: God/deity/mighty one
• *lāmad*: to learn/teach
• *dāʿat*: knowledge/wisdom
• *rām*: high/exalted/lofty
• *šāpaṭ*: to judge/govern/vindicate

Referenced Verses

• Rom 11:34 : 34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
• 1 Cor 2:16 : 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
• Isa 40:13-14 : 13 Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, or being his counsellor hath taught him? 14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
• Isa 40:22-23 : 22 [ It is] he that sitteth above 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; 23 that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
• Isa 45:9 : 9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
• 1 Cor 6:3 : 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life?
• 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
• Jude 1:6 : 6 And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
• Rev 20:1-3 : 1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and cast him into the abyss, and shut [it], {G2808} and sealed [it] over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years should be finished: {G2532} after this he must be loosed for a little time.
• Rev 20:12-15 : 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, [even] the lake of fire. 15 And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
• Job 4:18 : 18 Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; And his angels he chargeth with folly:
• Job 15:15 : 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:
• Job 34:17-19 : 17 Shall even one that hateth justice govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous [and] mighty?— 18 [Him] that saith to a king, [Thou art] vile, [Or] to nobles, [Ye are] wicked; 19 That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.
• Job 35:11 : 11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, And maketh us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
• Job 36:22 : 22 Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like unto him?
• Job 40:2 : 2 Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it.
• Ps 82:1 : 1 A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of God; He judgeth among the gods.
• Ps 113:5-6 : 5 Who is like unto Jehovah our God, That hath his seat on high, 6 That humbleth himself to behold [The things that are] in heaven and in the earth?
• Eccl 5:8 : 8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there are higher than they.