Job 4:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

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 this is true: but how can a man be righteous before God?
  • Job 25:4 : 4 How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living shall 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 on earth who does good and does not sin.
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who 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, What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within and defile a man.
  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
  • Rom 3:4-7 : 4 Certainly not: indeed, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, 'That you may be justified in your words, and may overcome when you are judged.' 5 But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man) 6 Certainly not: for then how will God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed it, Why have you made me like this?
  • Rom 11:33 : 33 Oh, 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 The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come."
  • Job 35:2 : 2 Do you think this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?
  • Job 35:10 : 10 But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Will you also annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
  • Job 9:30-31 : 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands thoroughly; 31 Yet You will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes will 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 who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Gen 18:25 : 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
  • Job 8:3 : 3 Does God pervert judgment, or does the Almighty pervert justice?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 15:13-16
    4 verses
    81%

    13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

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

    15Behold, He puts no trust in His saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in His sight.

    16How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

  • Job 25:4
    80%

    4How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?

  • Job 40:8-9
    2 verses
    78%

    8Will you also annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

    9Do you have an arm like God, or can you thunder with a voice like him?

  • Job 7:17
    77%

    17What is man, that you should magnify him, and that you should set your heart upon him?

  • Job 33:12-13
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    12Behold, in this you are not just; I will answer you, that God is greater than man.

    13Why do you strive against Him? For He does not give account of any of His matters.

  • Job 4:16
    77%

    16It stood still, but I could not discern its form: an image was before my eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

  • Job 14:3-4
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    3And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

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

  • Hab 1:12-13
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    76%

    12Are You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; O mighty God, You have established them for correction.

    13You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a man more righteous than he?

  • Job 8:3
    75%

    3Does God pervert judgment, or does the Almighty pervert justice?

  • Job 35:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2Do you think this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?

    3For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I am cleansed from my sin?

  • Job 9:2
    75%

    2I know this is true: but how can a man be righteous before God?

  • Job 34:23
    75%

    23For He will not lay upon man more than right, that he should enter into judgment with God.

  • Rom 9:20
    75%

    20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed it, Why have you made me like this?

  • Job 4:18
    74%

    18Behold, he puts no trust in his servants; and his angels he charges with folly:

  • Job 11:4
    74%

    4For you have said, 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.'

  • Job 36:23
    74%

    23Who has ordered him his way? or who can say, You have done wrong?

  • Job 10:3-4
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    74%

    3Is it good to You that You should oppress, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

    4Do You have eyes of flesh? Or do You see as man sees?

  • Job 22:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways perfect?

    4Will He correct you for fear of you? Will He enter into judgment with you?

  • Job 31:2
    73%

    2For what portion of God is there from above? And what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

  • Job 34:17
    73%

    17Shall even he who hates justice govern? And will you condemn Him who is most just?

  • Job 9:32
    73%

    32For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, and we should come together in judgment.

  • Ps 144:3
    73%

    3LORD, what is man, that you take knowledge of him! Or the son of man, that you make account of him!

  • Job 21:4
    73%

    4As for me, is my complaint to a man? And if it were, why should my spirit not be troubled?

  • Ps 143:2
    73%

    2And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living shall be justified.

  • Job 31:14
    73%

    14What then shall I do when God rises up? When He visits, what shall I answer Him?

  • Job 34:10
    73%

    10Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God to do wickedness, and from the Almighty to commit iniquity.

  • Job 11:7
    73%

    7Can you by searching find out God? Can you find out the Almighty to perfection?

  • Job 21:22
    73%

    22Can anyone teach God knowledge, seeing He judges those who are high?

  • Job 4:7
    73%

    7Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off?

  • Job 18:3
    73%

    3Why are we counted as beasts, and considered vile in your sight?

  • Ezek 18:5
    72%

    5But if a man is just and does what is lawful and right,

  • Job 34:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12Surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

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

  • Job 13:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

    8Will you accept his person? will you contend for God?

  • Prov 20:9
    72%

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

  • Isa 40:18
    72%

    18To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

  • Job 40:2
    72%

    2Shall he who contends with the Almighty instruct him? He who reproves God, let him answer it.

  • Jer 16:20
    72%

    20Shall a man make gods for himself, which are not gods?

  • Job 23:7
    72%

    7There the righteous might dispute with him, so I would be delivered forever from my judge.