Job 4:17

Tree of Life Version

‘Can a mortal be righteous before God; or a man pure before his Creator?

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from You to do such a thing—to cause the righteous to die with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked share the same fate! Far be it from You! Shall the Judge of the whole world not exercise justice?”

Job 14:4

Who can make something pure out of the impure? No one!

Job 15:14

“What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of woman, that he could be righteous?

Job 25:4

How then can a man be righteous with God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

Job 31:15

Did not He who made me in the womb, make him? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

Job 32:22

for I do not know how to flatter else my Maker would quickly carry 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 just? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is greater than God’s?’

Job 36:3

I get my knowledge from afar; I ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Job 4:16

It stood still, but I could not recognize its appearance, A form was before my eyes and I heard a murmur, a voice:

Job 40:8

“Would you really annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?

Job 8:3

Does God pervert justice? Does Shaddai pervert justice?

Job 9:2

“Truly I know it is so, but how can one be righteous before God?

Psalm 143:2

Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for in Your eyes no one living is righteous.

Psalm 145:17

Adonai is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is not a righteous person on earth who does what is good and doesn’t sin.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, Adonai, when I plead my case with You. Yet I speak with You about justice. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the treacherous thrive?

Jeremiah 17:9

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable—who can know it?

Romans 11:33

O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how incomprehensible His ways!

Romans 2:5

But by your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.

Romans 9:20

But who in the world are you, O man, who talks back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Revelation 4:8

The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes all around and within. They do not rest day or night, chanting, “Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot, asher haya v’hoveh v’yavo! Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of Hosts, who was and who is and who is to come!”