Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 36:22

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 36:22 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 36:22. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Job, God is very powerful and can lift people up high. No one can teach us as well as God can.

Job 36:22: Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 8:9

While Job 36:22 emphasizes God's strength and unmatched teaching, Ecclesiastes 8:9 highlights the potential for man's misrule and harm, contrasting divine authority with flawed human leadership.

Ecclesiastes 8:9: All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

Contradiction with Isaiah 55:8-9

Job 36:22 suggests we can learn from God's greatness, while Isaiah 55:8-9 highlights the incomprehensibility of God's ways, suggesting limits to human understanding of divine teachings.

Isaiah 55:8-9: For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

Contradiction with 1 Corinthians 1:25

Job 36:22 speaks to God's unmatched power, while this verse contrasts the perceived foolishness of God with the perceived wisdom of man, questioning the metrics of divine versus human wisdom.

1 Corinthians 1:25: Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Contradiction with Job 21:7-9

Unlike Job 36:22 which focuses on God's power, this acknowledges the prosperity of the wicked, questioning the immediate justice associated with divine power.

Job 21:7-9: Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Contradiction with Jeremiah 12:1

Here, the question of why the wicked prosper challenges the notion in Job 36:22 of unmitigated divine power resulting in order and justice exclusively.

Jeremiah 12:1: Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously? [talk...: or, reason the case with thee]
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