Job 4:17

New Century Version

It said, ‘Can a human be more right than God? Can a person be pure before his maker?

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Surely you will not destroy the good people along with the evil ones; then they would be treated the same. You are the judge of all the earth. Won’t you do what is right?”

Job 14:4

No one can bring something clean from something dirty.

Job 15:14

“How can anyone be pure? How can someone born to a woman be good?

Job 25:4

So no one can be good in the presence of God, and no one born to a woman can be pure.

Job 31:15

God made me in my mother’s womb, and he also made them; the same God formed both of us in our mothers’ wombs.

Job 32:22

I don’t know how to flatter, and if I did, my Maker would quickly take me away.

Job 35:10

But no one asks, ‘Where is God, my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

Job 35:2

“Do you think this is fair? You say, ‘God will show that I am right,’

Job 36:3

What I know comes from far away. I will show that my Maker is right.

Job 4:16

The spirit stopped, but I could not see what it was. A shape stood before my eyes, and I heard a quiet voice.

Job 40:8

Would you say that I am unfair? Would you blame me to make yourself look right?

Job 8:3

God does not twist justice; the Almighty does not make wrong what is right.

Job 9:2

“Yes, I know that this is true, but how can anyone be right in the presence of God?

Psalm 143:2

Don’t judge me, your servant, because no one alive is right before you.

Psalm 145:17

Everything the Lord does is right. He is loyal to all he has made.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is not a good person on earth who always does good and never sins.

Jeremiah 12:1

Lord, when I bring my case to you, you are always right. But I want to ask you about the justice you give. Why are evil people successful? Why do dishonest people have such easy lives?

Jeremiah 17:9

“More than anything else, a person’s mind is evil and cannot be healed. Who can understand it?

Romans 11:33

Yes, God’s riches are very great, and his wisdom and knowledge have no end! No one can explain the things God decides or understand his ways.

Romans 2:5

But you are stubborn and refuse to change, so you are making your own punishment even greater on the day he shows his anger. On that day everyone will see God’s right judgments.

Romans 9:20

You are only human, and human beings have no right to question God. An object should not ask the person who made it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Revelation 4:8

Each of these four living creatures had six wings and was covered all over with eyes, inside and out. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. He was, he is, and he is coming.”