Job 25:4
How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
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Referenced Verses
- Job 4:17-19 : 17 “Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator? 18 If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels, 19 how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
- Job 9:2 : 2 “Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?
- Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous? 15 If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes, 16 how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!
- Ps 130:3 : 3 If you, O LORD, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?
- Ps 143:2 : 2 Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.
- Rom 5:1 : 1 The Expectation of Justification Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
- 1 John 1:9 : 9 But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.
- Zech 13:1 : 1 The Refinement of Judah“In that day there will be a fountain opened up for the dynasty of David and the people of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
- Ps 51:5 : 5 Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.
- Job 14:3-4 : 3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment? 4 Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
- Rom 3:19-20 : 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20 For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
- Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ– the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood
- Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…
- 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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- Job 15:13-164 verses87%
13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?
14What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
15If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,
16how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!
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17“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?
- Job 14:3-42 verses79%
3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
4Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
- Job 25:5-62 verses78%
5If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,
6how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot– a son of man, who is only a worm!”
- Job 9:2-32 verses75%
2“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?
3If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.
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3Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?
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9Who can say,“I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”?
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1The Brevity of Life“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.
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3But you say,‘What will it profit you,’ and,‘What do I gain by not sinning?’
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14then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?
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4For you have said,‘My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.’
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9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.
- Job 9:29-302 verses69%
29If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?
30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,
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2Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.
- Job 22:3-53 verses69%
3Is it of any special benefit to the Almighty that you should be righteous, or is it any gain to him that you make your ways blameless?
4Is it because of your piety that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you?
5Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?
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3Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?
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23Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him,‘You have done what is wicked’?
- Ps 51:4-52 verses68%
4Against you– you above all– I have sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. So you are just when you confront me; you are right when you condemn me.
5Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.
- Job 35:6-72 verses68%
6If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?
7If you are righteous, what do you give to God, or what does he receive from your hand?
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4The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.
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2What then would be one’s lot from God above, one’s heritage from the Almighty on high?
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3“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said,‘A man has been conceived!’
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17Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?
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8Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
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4Motivations of God“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?
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5“Suppose a man is righteous. He practices what is just and right,
- Job 8:3-42 verses68%
3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?
4If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
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23For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.
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7Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?
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6So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
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6We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind.
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2Wash away my wrongdoing! Cleanse me of my sin!
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12There is a generation who are pure in their own opinion and yet are not washed from their filthiness.
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3or when he touches human uncleanness with regard to anything by which he can become unclean, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty;
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12Who can know all his errors? Please do not punish me for sins I am unaware of.
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6Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?
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21But now, the sun cannot be looked at– it is bright in the skies– after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.
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13You are too just to tolerate evil; you are unable to condone wrongdoing. So why do you put up with such treacherous people? Why do you say nothing when the wicked devour those more righteous than they are?