Job 4:17
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Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
In other translations
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Job 9:2I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
- Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- Ecclesiastes 7:20For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
- Psalm 143:2And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
- Romans 11:33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
- Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
- Job 35:2Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
- Job 35:10But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
- Jeremiah 12:1Righteous 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?Righteous 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?
- Romans 2:5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;But 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.
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