Job 25:4

American Standard Version (1901)

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:17-19 : 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? 18 Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; And his angels he chargeth with folly: 19 How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
  • Job 9:2 : 2 Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?
  • Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight: 16 How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.
  • Rom 5:1 : 1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
  • 1 John 1:9 : 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
  • Zech 13:1 : 1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.
  • Job 14:3-4 : 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee? 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
  • Rom 3:19-20 : 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God: 20 because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 15:13-16
    4 verses
    87%

    13That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?

    14What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

    15Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

    16How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!

  • Job 4:17
    80%

    17Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

  • Job 14:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?

    4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

  • Job 25:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight:

    6How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm!

  • Job 9:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

    3If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

  • Job 25:3
    73%

    3Is there any number of his armies? And upon whom doth not his light arise?

  • Prov 20:9
    72%

    9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

  • Job 14:1
    72%

    1Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

  • Job 35:3
    71%

    3That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? [And], What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

  • Job 31:14
    70%

    14What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

  • Job 11:4
    70%

    4For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes.

  • Job 33:9
    70%

    9I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

  • Job 9:29-30
    2 verses
    69%

    29I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

    30If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;

  • Ps 143:2
    69%

    2And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

  • Job 22:3-5
    3 verses
    69%

    3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? Or is it gain [to him], that thou makest thy ways perfect?

    4Is it for thy fear [of him] that he reproveth thee, That he entereth with thee into judgment?

    5Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.

  • Job 18:3
    69%

    3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become unclean in your sight?

  • Job 36:23
    69%

    23Who hath enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?

  • Ps 51:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight; That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest.

    5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

  • Job 35:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6If thou hast sinned, what effectest thou against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

    7If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? Or what receiveth he of thy hand?

  • Ps 24:4
    68%

    4He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, And hath not sworn deceitfully.

  • Job 31:2
    68%

    2For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?

  • Job 3:3
    68%

    3Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

  • Job 7:17
    68%

    17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,

  • Job 40:8
    68%

    8Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?

  • Job 10:4
    68%

    4Hast thou eyes of flesh? Or seest thou as man seeth?

  • Ezek 18:5
    68%

    5But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

  • Job 8:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?

    4If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;

  • Job 34:23
    67%

    23For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.

  • Job 4:7
    67%

    7Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

  • Rom 4:6
    67%

    6Even as David also pronounceth blessing upon the man, unto whom God reckoneth righteousness apart from works,

  • Isa 64:6
    67%

    6For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

  • Ps 51:2
    67%

    2Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.

  • Prov 30:12
    67%

    12There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, And [yet] are not washed from their filthiness.

  • Lev 5:3
    67%

    3Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his uncleanness be wherewith he is unclean, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.

  • Ps 19:12
    67%

    12Who can discern [his] errors? Clear thou me from hidden [faults] .

  • Rom 3:6
    67%

    6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

  • Job 37:21
    67%

    21And now men see not the light which is bright in the skies; But the wind passeth, and cleareth them.

  • Hab 1:13
    67%

    13Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;