Verse 17

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

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?