God puts no trust even in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;
Job 21:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Shall any teach God knowledge? Seeing he judgeth those that are high. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing that He judges those who are on high? [Rom. 11:34; I Cor. 2:16.] American Standard Version (1901) Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judgeth those that are high? Common English Bible Will they instruct God— he who judges the most powerful? Catholic Public Domain Version Can anyone teach holy knowledge to God, who judges the exalted? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high? |
God puts no trust even in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;
For what do they care for their household after them, when the number of their months is cut off?
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, ‘You have done wrong’?
Gird up your loins like a man; I will question you, and you shall declare to me.
Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;
“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Anyone who argues with God must respond.”
God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and right, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
Woe to those who strive with their Maker, earthen vessels with the potter! Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”? or “Your work has no handles”?
For who has stood in the council of the Lord so as to see and to hear his word? Who has given heed to his word so as to proclaim it?
“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”
“For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
Do you not know that we are to judge angels, to say nothing of ordinary matters?
For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment;
And the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day.