Job 25:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:17-19 : 17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker? 18 Truly, he puts no faith in his servants, and he sees error in his angels; 19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
  • Job 9:2 : 2 Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?
  • Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright? 15 Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes; 16 How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.
  • Rom 5:1 : 1 For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
  • 1 John 1:9 : 9 If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.
  • Zech 13:1 : 1 In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean.
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
  • Job 14:3-4 : 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him? 4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
  • Rom 3:19-20 : 19 Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God: 20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness 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%

    13So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

    14What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

    15Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;

    16How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

  • Job 4:17
    80%

    17May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

  • Job 14:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

    4If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

  • Job 25:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes:

    6How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!

  • Job 9:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

    3If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

  • Job 25:3
    73%

    3Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining?

  • Prov 20:9
    72%

    9Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

  • Job 14:1
    72%

    1As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

  • Job 35:3
    71%

    3What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

  • Job 31:14
    70%

    14What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

  • Job 11:4
    70%

    4You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.

  • Job 33:9
    70%

    9I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:

  • Job 9:29-30
    2 verses
    69%

    29You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?

    30If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;

  • Ps 143:2
    69%

    2Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

  • Job 22:3-5
    3 verses
    69%

    3Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?

    4Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?

    5Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.

  • Job 18:3
    69%

    3Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

  • Job 36:23
    69%

    23Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?

  • Ps 51:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

    5Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

  • Job 35:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

    7If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?

  • Ps 24:4
    68%

    4He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.

  • Job 31:2
    68%

    2For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?

  • Job 3:3
    68%

    3Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.

  • Job 7:17
    68%

    17What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

  • Job 40:8
    68%

    8Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

  • Job 10:4
    68%

    4Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees?

  • Ezek 18:5
    68%

    5But if a man is upright, living rightly and doing righteousness,

  • Job 8:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?

    4If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.

  • Job 34:23
    67%

    23For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.

  • Job 4:7
    67%

    7Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?

  • Rom 4:6
    67%

    6As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying,

  • Isa 64:6
    67%

    6And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

  • Ps 51:2
    67%

    2Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.

  • Prov 30:12
    67%

    12There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

  • Lev 5:3
    67%

    3Or if he becomes unclean through touching unconsciously any unclean thing of man, whatever it may be, when it is made clear to him he will be responsible:

  • Ps 19:12
    67%

    12Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.

  • Rom 3:6
    67%

    6In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?

  • Job 37:21
    67%

    21And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.

  • Hab 1:13
    67%

    13Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?