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Job 4:17

Tree of Life Version

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!”

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?”

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Does God pervert justice? Does Shaddai pervert justice?

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?”

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

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

for I do not know how to flatter else my Maker would quickly carry me away!

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




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