Job 4:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Can mortal man be just before God, or be more right than He is? Can a man be pure before his Maker, or be more cleansed than He is? [I John 1:7; Rev. 1:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁷ “Can a human be more righteous than God, a person purer than their maker?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Should man be justified in relation to God, or will a man be more pure than his Maker?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Shall man be justified in comparison of God; or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Job 4:17 Cross References

Genesis 18:25

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Job 14:4

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

Job 15:14

What is man, that he should be clean? And he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 25:4

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

Job 31:15

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

Job 32:22

For I know not to give flattering titles; Else would my Maker soon take me away.

Job 35:10

But none saith, Where is God my Maker, Who giveth songs in the night;

Job 35:2

Thinkest thou this to be thy right, Or sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God's,

Job 36:3

I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Job 4:16

It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; A form was before mine eyes: There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

Job 40:8

Wilt thou even disannul my judgement? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?

Job 8:3

Doth God pervert judgement? Or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

Job 9:2

Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

Psalm 143:2

And enter not into judgement with thy servant; For in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

Psalm 145:17

The LORD is righteous in all his ways, And gracious in all his works.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is desperately sick: who can know it?

Romans 11:33

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgements, and his ways past tracing out!

Romans 2:5

but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgement of God;

Romans 9:20

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?

Revelation 4:8

And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty, which was and which is and which is to come.