Job 4:17

English Standard Version 2016

‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Cross References

Job 9:2

“Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?

Job 25:4

How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

Romans 11:33

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

Psalm 143:2

Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.

Revelation 4:8

And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

Romans 9:20

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”

Romans 2:5

But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are you, O Lord, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

Psalm 145:17

The Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works.

Job 40:8

Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?

Job 35:10

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

Job 35:2

“Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’

Job 15:14

What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

Job 14:4

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

Job 8:3

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

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

Job 4:16

It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:

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 do not know how to flatter, else my Maker would soon take me away.

Job 36:3

I will get my knowledge from afar and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.