Verse 17

Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be purer than his Maker?

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  • Job 9:2 : 2 Truly, I know this is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
  • Job 25:4 : 4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before you.
  • Ps 145:17 : 17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways and faithful in all he does.
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 Surely there is no one righteous on earth who always does good and never sins.
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 You are righteous, LORD, even when I bring my case to you. Yet I want to discuss your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those who betray others at ease?
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things and incurable—who can understand it?
  • Mark 7:20-23 : 20 And He continued, "What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21 For from within, out of the human heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, 22 adulteries, greed, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness. 23 All these evils come from within and defile a person.
  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
  • Rom 3:4-7 : 4 Absolutely not! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written: "So that You may be justified in Your words and prevail when You are judged." 5 But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust for bringing His wrath on us? (I am speaking in human terms.) 6 Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world? 7 If the truth of God has increased His glory through my falsehood, why am I still judged as a sinner?
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its maker, 'Why have you made me like this?'
  • Rom 11:33 : 33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments and His ways beyond tracing out!
  • Rev 4:8 : 8 Each of the four living creatures had six wings and were covered with eyes all around, even under their wings. Day and night they never stop saying: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, who is, and who is to come."
  • Job 35:2 : 2 Do you think this is justice, when you say, 'My righteousness is greater than God's'?
  • Job 35:10 : 10 But no one asks, 'Where is God, my Maker, who gives songs in the night?'
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Would you indeed annul My justice? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?
  • Job 9:30-31 : 30 Even if I washed myself with snow and cleansed my hands with soap, 31 You would plunge me into a pit, and even my clothes would abhor me.
  • Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring what is pure out of the unclean? No one.
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of a woman, that he could be righteous?
  • Gen 18:25 : 25 'Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?'
  • Job 8:3 : 3 Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty distort what is right?