Job 4:17

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from you to do this thing, and to kill the just with the impious, and for the just to be treated like the impious. No, this is not like you. You judge all the earth; you would never make such a judgment."

Job 14:4

Who can make him clean who is conceived of unclean seed? Are you not the only one who can?

Job 15:14

What is man that he should be immaculate, and that he should appear just, having been born of woman?

Job 25:4

Is it right for man to compare himself to God, or to appear pure though he is born of woman?

Job 31:15

Is not he who created me in the womb, also he who labored to make him? And did not one and the same form me in the womb?

Job 32:22

For I do not know how long I will continue, and whether, after a while, my Maker might take me away.

Job 35:10

Yet he has not said: "Where is God, who made me, who has given songs in the night,

Job 35:2

Does it seem right to you in your thoughts, that you should say, "I am more just than God?"

Job 36:3

I will review my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my Maker to be just.

Job 4:16

There appeared an image before my eyes, someone whose face I did not recognize, and I heard a voice like a gentle breeze.

Job 40:8

Hide them in the dust together and plunge their faces into the pit.

Job 8:3

Does God supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just?

Job 9:2

Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.

Psalm 143:2

My mercy and my refuge, my supporter and my deliverer, my protector and him in whom I have hoped: he subdues my people under me.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Wisdom has strengthened the wise more than ten princes of a city.

Jeremiah 12:1

Certainly, O Lord, you are just. But if I may contend with you, while still speaking what is just to you: Why does the way of the impious prosper? Why is it well with all those who transgress and act unfairly?

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is depraved above all things, and it is unsearchable, who can know it?

Romans 11:33

Oh, the depths of the richness of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable are his ways!

Romans 2:5

But in accord with your hard and impenitent heart, you store up wrath for yourself, unto the day of wrath and of revelation by the just judgment of God.

Romans 9:20

O man, who are you to question God? How can the thing that has been formed say to the One who formed him: "Why have you made me this way?"

Revelation 4:8

And each of the four living creatures had upon them six wings, and all around and within they are full of eyes. And they took no rest, day or night, from saying: "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come."