Job 21:22
Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Numquid Deus docebit quispiam scientiam, qui excelsos judicat ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πότερον οὐχὶ ὁ κύριός ἐστιν ὁ διδάσκων σύνεσιν καὶ ἐπιστήμην; αὐτὸς δὲ φόνους διακρινεῖ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַלְאֵ֥ל יְלַמֶּד דָּ֑עַת וְ֝ה֗וּא רָמִ֥ים יִשְׁפּֽוֹט
The Fathers on this verse
St Methodius Some Other Fragments of the Same Methodius, Fragment I
But , perhaps, since the friends of Job imagined that they understood the reason why he suffered such things, that just man, using a long speech to them, confesses that the wisdom of the divine judgment is incomprehensible, not only to him, but also to every man, and declares that this earthly region is not the fitting place for understanding the knowledge of the divine counsels. One might say, that perfect and absolute piety, a thing plainly divine, and of God alone given to man, is in this place called wisdom. But the sense of the words is as follows: God, he says, hath given great things unto men, sowing, as it were, in their nature the power of discovery, together with wisdom, and the faculty of art. And men having received this, dig metals out of the earth, and cultivate it; but that wisdom which is conjoined with piety, it is not possible in any place to discover. …