Job 4:17

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

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 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? What is he who 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 who is born of a woman be clean?

Job 31:15

Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb?

Job 32:22

For I don't know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker would soon take me away.

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 your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'

Job 36:3

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

Job 4:16

It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

Job 40:8

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

Job 8:3

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

Job 9:2

*Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

Psalm 143:2

Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

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 on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are you, LORD, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

Romans 11:33

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!

Romans 2:5

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;

Romans 9:20

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?*

Revelation 4:8

The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around about 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!*