King James Version
Job 36:22 in the King James Version says “Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?” — study this verse from Job chapter 36 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?”
Job 36:22 · KJV
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Behold God”
H410strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the almighty (but used also of any deity)
“exalteth”
H7682to be (causatively, make) lofty, especially inaccessible; by implication, safe, strong; used literally and figuratively
“by his power”
H3581vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce)
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
“who teacheth”
H3384properly, to flow as water (i.e., to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e., to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by
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