Job 21:22

King James 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 may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
• Isa 40:13-14 : 13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? 14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
• Isa 40:22-23 : 22 It 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: 23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
• Isa 45:9 : 9 Woe 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?
• 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 the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
• Jude 1:6 : 6 And 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.
• Rev 20:1-3 : 1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
• Rev 20:12-15 : 12 And 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. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
• Job 4:18 : 18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
• Job 15:15 : 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
• Job 34:17-19 : 17 Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just? 18 Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly? 19 How much less to him that accepteth 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 fowls of heaven?
• Job 36:22 : 22 Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
• Job 40:2 : 2 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
• Ps 82:1 : 1 A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth{H8737)} in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth{H8799)} among the gods.
• Ps 113:5-6 : 5 Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high, 6 Who 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 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.