Job 4:17

Modern English Version

‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be more pure than his maker?

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be treated like the wicked; far be it from You. Should not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is no one.

Job 15:14

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

Job 25:4

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

Job 31:15

Did not He who made me in the womb make him? And did not the same One fashion us in the womb?

Job 32:22

For I do not know how to give flattering titles; in so doing 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 is right, that you say, ‘My righteousness is before God’?

Job 36:3

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

Job 4:16

It stood still, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form was in front of my eyes, there was stillness, then I heard a voice saying:

Job 40:8

“Will you indeed annul My judgment? Will you condemn Me, that you may be righteous?

Job 8:3

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

Job 9:2

“Truly, I know it is so, but how can a man be righteous with God?

Psalm 143:2

Enter not into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living is righteous.

Psalm 145:17

The Lord is righteous in all His ways and merciful in all His works.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who only does good and refrains from sin.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, O  Lord, that I plead with You. Indeed, let me talk with You about matters of justice. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal very treacherously?

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is more deceitful than all things and desperately wicked; who can understand it?

Romans 11:33

Oh the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable are His ways!

Romans 2:5

But because of your hardness and impenitent heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself on the day of wrath when the righteous judgment of God will be revealed,

Romans 9:20

Rather, O man, who are you to answer back to God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”

Revelation 4:8

The four living creatures had six wings each, and they were covered with eyes all around. All day and night, without ceasing, they were saying: “ ‘Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty,’ who was, and is, and is to come.”