Job 4:17

New King James 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 as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

Job 15:14

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

Job 25:4

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

Job 31:15

Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same 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 35:10

But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,

Job 35:2

“Do you think this is right? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

Job 36:3

I will fetch my knowledge from afar; I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

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 saying:

Job 40:8

“Would you indeed annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

Job 8:3

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

Job 9:2

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

Psalm 143:2

Do not enter 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, Gracious in all His works.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

For there is not a just man on earth who does good And does not sin.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, O Lord, when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously?

Jeremiah 17:9

“The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?

Romans 11:33

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

Romans 2:5

But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Romans 9:20

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”

Revelation 4:8

The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying: “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!”