Job 4:17

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Job 9:2

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

Job 25:4

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

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth that does good, and sins not.

Romans 11:33

O the depth of wealth, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond finding out!

Psalm 143:2

And enter not into judgment with thy servant. For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

Revelation 4:8

And the four beings, one by one, each having six wings, are full of eyes around and inside. And they have no cessation day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord, the Almighty God, he was, and who is, and who is coming.

Romans 9:20

Rather, O man, who are thou answering back to God? No, will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why did thou make me this way?

Romans 2:5

But according to thy hardness, and thy impenitent heart, thou store up wrath to thyself in the day of wrath, and revelation, and righteous judgment of God,

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

Jeremiah 12:1

Thou are righteous, O LORD, when I contend with thee. Yet I would reason the case with thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those at ease who deal very treacherously?

Psalm 145:17

LORD is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

Job 40:8

Will thou even annul my judgment? Will thou condemn me, that thou may be justified?

Job 35:10

But none says, Where is God my maker who gives songs in the night,

Job 35:2

What [is] this thou think in judgment? Who are thou that thou said, I am righteousness before LORD?

Job 15:14

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

Job 14:4

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

Job 8:3

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

Genesis 18:25

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay a righteous man with a wicked man, that so the righteous man should be as the wicked man. Far be it from thee. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Job 4:16

It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance of it. A form was before my eyes. [There was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],

Job 31:15

Did not he who 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] my maker would soon take me away.

Job 36:3

I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my maker.