Job 4:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

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  • Job 9:2 : 2 I know [it is] so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
  • Job 25:4 : 4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean [that is] born of a woman?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
  • Ps 145:17 : 17 The LORD [is] righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 For [there is] not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 ¶ Righteous [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?
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?
  • Mark 7:20-23 : 20 And he said, ‹That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.› 21 ‹For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,› 22 ‹Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:› 23 ‹All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.›
  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
  • Rom 3:4-7 : 4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. 5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus?
  • Rom 11:33 : 33 ¶ O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable [are] his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
  • Rev 4:8 : 8 ¶ And the four beasts had each of them six wings about [him]; and [they were] full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
  • Job 35:2 : 2 Thinkest thou this to be right, [that] thou saidst, My righteousness [is] more than God's?
  • Job 35:10 : 10 But none saith, Where [is] God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
  • Job 9:30-31 : 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
  • Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not one.
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Gen 18:25 : 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
  • Job 8:3 : 3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

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