Verse 17

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 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?