Job 21:22
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22 Will any teach God knowledge,
seeing that he judges those who are on high?(A)
Romans 11:34
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34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?”(A)
1 Corinthians 2:16
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16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.(A)
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Isaiah 40:13-14
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13 Who has directed the spirit of the Lord
or as his counselor has instructed him?(A)
14 Whom did he consult for his enlightenment,
and who taught him the path of justice?
[[Who taught him knowledge
and showed him the way of understanding?
Revelation 20:12-15
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12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, the book of life. And the dead were judged according to their works, as recorded in the books.(A) 13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and all were judged according to what they had done.(B) 14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire,(C) 15 and anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
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Revelation 20:1-3
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The Thousand Years
20 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. 2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years(A) 3 and threw him into the pit and locked and sealed it over him, so that he would deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be let out for a little while.(B)
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Jude 6
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6 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.(A)
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2 Peter 2:4
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4 For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell and committed them to chains[a] of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment;(A)
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- 2.4 Other ancient authorities read pits
1 Corinthians 6:3
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3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels, to say nothing of ordinary matters?
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Isaiah 45:9
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9 Woe to those who strive with their Maker,
earthen vessels with the potter![a]
Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”?
or “Your work has no handles”?(A)
Footnotes
- 45.9 Cn: Heb with the potsherds or with the potters
Isaiah 40:22-23
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22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain
and spreads them like a tent to live in,(A)
23 who brings princes to naught
and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.(B)
Ecclesiastes 5:8
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8 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.(A)
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Psalm 113:5-6
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5 Who is like the Lord our God,
who is seated on high,(A)
6 who looks far down
on the heavens and the earth?(B)
Psalm 82:1
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Psalm 82
A Plea for Justice
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 God has taken his place in the divine council;
in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:(A)
Job 40:2
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- 40.2 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Job 36:22
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22 See, God is exalted in his power;
who is a teacher like him?
Job 35:11
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11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth
and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’(A)
Job 34:17-19
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17 Shall one who hates justice govern?
Will you condemn one who is righteous and mighty,(A)
18 who says to a king, ‘You scoundrel!’
and to princes, ‘You wicked men!’;(B)
19 who shows no partiality to nobles,
nor regards the rich more than the poor,
for they are all the work of his hands?(C)
Job 15:15
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15 God puts no trust even in his holy ones,
and the heavens are not clean in his sight;(A)
Job 4:18
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18 Even in his servants he puts no trust,
and his angels he charges with error;(A)
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