Job 4:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?”
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“‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 4:17 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 18:25Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
- Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
- Job 9:2“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
- Job 9:30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
- Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
- Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- Job 35:2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
- Job 35:10But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
- Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
- Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
- Psalms 145:17The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
- Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
- Jeremiah 12:1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
- Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
- Mark 7:20He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him.
- Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
- Romans 3:4Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
- Romans 9:20But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
- Romans 11:33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
- Revelation 4:8And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
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