Job 4:17

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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?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 15:13-16
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    81%

    13That you turn your spirit against God and let words escape from your mouth?

    14What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of a woman, that he could be righteous?

    15Behold, God puts no trust in His holy ones, and even the heavens are not pure in His sight.

    16How much less is a man, who is detestable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!

  • Job 25:4
    80%

    4How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

  • Job 40:8-9
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    78%

    8Would you indeed annul My justice? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

    9Do you have an arm like God's, and can your voice thunder like His?

  • Job 7:17
    77%

    17What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention,

  • Job 33:12-13
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    12But I tell you, in this you are not right, for God is greater than a man.

    13Why do you contend with Him? For He does not answer all of man's words.

  • Job 4:16
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    16It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form was before my eyes; silence, and then I heard a voice:

  • Job 14:3-4
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    76%

    3Do you fix your gaze on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

    4Who can bring what is pure out of the unclean? No one.

  • Hab 1:12-13
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    76%

    12Are You not from eternity, LORD my God, my Holy One? We will not die. LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; You, O Rock, have established them to rebuke.

    13Your eyes are too pure to look on evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the treacherous? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

  • Job 8:3
    75%

    3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty distort what is right?

  • Job 35:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2Do you think this is justice, when you say, 'My righteousness is greater than God's'?

    3For you ask, 'What advantage is it to me? What do I gain by not sinning?'

  • Job 9:2
    75%

    2Truly, I know this is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

  • Job 34:23
    75%

    23For He does not need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

  • Rom 9:20
    75%

    20But 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?'

  • Job 4:18
    74%

    18Behold, He puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error.

  • Job 11:4
    74%

    4For you say, 'My teaching is pure, and I have been clean in your eyes.'

  • Job 36:23
    74%

    23Who has appointed His path for Him, or who can say, 'You have done wrong'?

  • Job 10:3-4
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    74%

    3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands, while You favor the plans of the wicked?

    4Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as a mortal sees?

  • Job 22:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3Is it a delight to the Almighty if you are righteous? Or does He gain anything if your ways are blameless?

    4Is it because of your reverence that He rebukes you and brings you into judgment?

  • Job 31:2
    73%

    2For what is the portion from God above, or the inheritance from the Almighty on high?

  • Job 34:17
    73%

    17Can one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the righteous and mighty one?

  • Job 9:32
    73%

    32For He is not a man, like me, that I might answer Him, that we might go to court together.

  • Ps 144:3
    73%

    3Lord, what is man that You care for him, or a son of man that You think of him?

  • Job 21:4
    73%

    4Is my complaint directed to a man? Why then should my spirit not be impatient?

  • Ps 143:2
    73%

    2Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before you.

  • Job 31:14
    73%

    14what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when He calls me to account?

  • Job 34:10
    73%

    10Therefore, you men of understanding, listen to me: Far be it from God to do evil, and from the Almighty to do wrong.

  • Job 11:7
    73%

    7Can you search out the depths of God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty?

  • Job 21:22
    73%

    22Can anyone teach knowledge to God, who judges even the exalted ones?

  • Job 4:7
    73%

    7Consider this: Who that is innocent has ever perished? And where have the upright been destroyed?

  • Job 18:3
    73%

    3Why are we regarded as animals and considered unclean in your eyes?

  • Ezek 18:5
    72%

    5If a man is righteous and does what is just and right,

  • Job 34:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12Truly, God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.

    13Who appointed Him over the earth? Or who gave Him charge over the whole world?

  • Job 13:7-8
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    72%

    7Will you speak unjustly on God's behalf and speak deceitfully for Him?

    8Will you show Him partiality or argue the case for God?

  • Prov 20:9
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    9Who can say, 'I have cleansed my heart; I am pure from my sin'?

  • Isa 40:18
    72%

    18To whom, then, will you compare God? What image can you find to resemble Him?

  • Job 40:2
    72%

    2Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? Let the one who argues with God answer.

  • Jer 16:20
    72%

    20Can people make their own gods? Such gods are not gods at all!

  • Job 23:7
    72%

    7There the upright could reason with him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.