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"Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those who are high?
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God Needs No Teacher
Job's question is rhetorical, asserting that finite humans cannot instruct the all-knowing God on how to govern the universe. Commentators explain that Job is rebuking his friends for their simplistic theology, which effectively tried to tell God how He must deal with the righteous and the wicked. The verse is a powerful call to humility before divine sovereignty.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Shall any teach God knowledge? - This begins the reply of Job to the sentiments of his friends to which he had just referred. The s…
19th Century
Anglican
Shall any teach God knowledge? may be regarded as the hypothetical reply of the antagonist. If the reader prefers to unde…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Shall [any] teach God knowledge ? &c.] Who is a God of knowledge, and knows all things, that teaches men knowledge; will anyon…
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Job had described the prosperity of wicked people; in these verses he opposes this to what his friends had maintained about their certain ruin in t…
13th Century
Catholic
Since Job had previously established that evil men sometimes experience prosperity and at other times adversity in this life, which causes doubt, h…
