Job 25:4

World English Bible (2000)

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:17-19 : 17 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? 18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error. 19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
  • Job 9:2 : 2 "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
  • Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight; 16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
  • Rom 5:1 : 1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
  • 1 John 1:9 : 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
  • Zech 13:1 : 1 "In that day there will be a spring opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
  • Job 14:3-4 : 3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you? 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
  • Rom 3:19-20 : 19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God. 20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 15:13-16
    4 verses
    87%

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

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

    15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

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

  • 17 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

  • Job 14:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

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

  • Job 25:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5 Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

    6 How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!"

  • Job 9:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2 "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

    3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.

  • 3 Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

  • 9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

  • 1 "Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

  • 3 That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

  • 14 What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

  • 4 For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.'

  • 9 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

  • Job 9:29-30
    2 verses
    69%

    29 I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

    30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

  • 2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

  • Job 22:3-5
    3 verses
    69%

    3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

    4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

    5 Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

  • 3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

  • 23 Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'

  • Ps 51:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4 Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

    5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

  • Job 35:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

    7 If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

  • 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

  • 2 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

  • 3 "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'

  • 17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

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

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

  • 5 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

  • Job 8:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

    4 If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

  • 23 For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

  • 7 "Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

  • 6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

  • 6 For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

  • 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

  • 12 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

  • 3 "'Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.

  • 12 Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

  • 6 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

  • 21 Now men don't see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.

  • 13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,