Job 4:17

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 9:2 : 2 "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
  • Job 25:4 : 4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
  • Ps 145:17 : 17 Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
  • Mark 7:20-23 : 20 He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. 21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, 22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."
  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
  • Rom 3:4-7 : 4 May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment." 5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do. 6 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God through my lie abounded 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? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
  • Rom 11:33 : 33 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
  • Rev 4:8 : 8 The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!"
  • Job 35:2 : 2 "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, '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 even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
  • Job 9:30-31 : 30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, 31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My 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? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Gen 18:25 : 25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
  • Job 8:3 : 3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

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

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

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

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

  • Job 25:4
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    4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

  • Job 40:8-9
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    8Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

    9Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

  • Job 7:17
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    17What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

  • Job 33:12-13
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    12"Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

    13Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?

  • Job 4:16
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    16It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

  • Job 14:3-4
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    3Do you open your eyes on 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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    12Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

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  • Job 8:3
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    3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

  • Job 35:2-3
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    2"Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'

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

  • Job 9:2
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    2"Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

  • Job 34:23
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    23For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

  • Rom 9:20
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    20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

  • Job 4:18
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    18Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

  • Job 11:4
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    4For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.'

  • Job 36:23
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    23Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'

  • Job 10:3-4
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    3Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

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

  • Job 22:3-4
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    3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

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

  • Job 31:2
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    2For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

  • Job 34:17
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    17Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?--

  • Job 9:32
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    32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

  • Ps 144:3
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    3Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

  • Job 21:4
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    4As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

  • Ps 143:2
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    2Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

  • Job 31:14
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    14What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

  • Job 34:10
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    10"Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

  • Job 11:7
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    7"Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

  • Job 21:22
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    22"Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

  • Job 4:7
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    7"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

  • Job 18:3
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    3Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

  • Ezek 18:5
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    5But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

  • Job 34:12-13
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    12Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

    13Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him over the whole world?

  • Job 13:7-8
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    7Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

    8Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?

  • Prov 20:9
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    9Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

  • Isa 40:18
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    18To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

  • Job 40:2
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    2"Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

  • Jer 16:20
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    20Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?

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    7There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.