Job 4:17

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

‘Can mortal man be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Job 14:4

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

Job 15:14

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

Job 25:4

How then can man be righteous before God? How can he who is born of woman be clean?

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 would my Maker soon put an end to me.

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 36:3

I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and 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:

Job 40:8

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

Job 8:3

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

Job 9:2

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

Psalm 143:2

Enter not into judgment with thy servant; for no man living is righteous before thee.

Psalm 145:17

The Lord is just in all his ways, and kind in all his doings.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

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

Jeremiah 12:1

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

Jeremiah 17:9

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

Romans 11:33

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

Romans 2:5

But by 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.

Romans 9:20

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

Revelation 4:8

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