Job 4:17 - Easy To Read Version ‘A person can’t be more right than God.\par Man can’t be more pure than his Maker.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Can mortal man be just before God, or be more right than He is? Can a man be pure before his Maker, or be more cleansed than He is? [I John 1:7; Rev. 1:5.] American Standard Version (1901) Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? Common English Bible “Can a human be more righteous than God, a person purer than their maker?” Catholic Public Domain Version Should man be justified in relation to God, or will a man be more pure than his Maker? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Shall man be justified in comparison of God; or shall a man be more pure than his maker? |
Surely you would not destroy the city. You would not destroy 50 good people to kill the evil people. If that happened, then good people and evil people would be the same—they would both be punished. You are the judge of all the earth. I know you will do the right thing.”
“But what does something clean\par have in common with something dirty?\par Nothing!\par
“A man can’t really be pure.\par A person {\cf2\super [25]} can’t be more right than God!\par
Compared to God, no person is good.\par No human being {\cf2\super [45]} can really be pure.\par
God made me in my mother’s body.\par And God also made my slaves.\par God shaped us all inside our mothers.\par
I can’t treat one person\par better another person!\par If I did that,\par
But those bad people\par will not ask God for help.\par They will not say,\par ‘Where is the God who made me?\par God helps people\par when they are depressed.\par So where is he?\par
“Job, it is not fair for you to say,\par ‘I am more right than God.’\par
I will share my knowledge with everyone.\par God made me and I will prove\par that God is fair.\par
The spirit stood still,\par but I could not see what it was.\par A shape stood before my eyes,\par and there was silence.\par Then I heard a very quiet voice:\par
“Job, do you think that I am not fair?\par You say that I am guilty of doing wrong\par so that you will appear innocent!\par
God is always fair.\par God All-Powerful never changes\par the things that are right.\par
“Yes, I know what you say is true.\par But how can a man win an argument with God?\par
Don’t judge me, your servant.\par Never, in all my life, could I ever be judged innocent.\par
Everything the Lord does is good.\par Everything he does shows how good he is.\par
Lord, if I argue with you,\par you are always right!\par But I want to ask you about some things that don’t seem right.\par Why are wicked people successful?\par Why do people you can’t trust have such easy lives?\par
“A person’s mind is very tricky!\par The mind can be very sick,\par and no person truly understands it.\par
Yes, God’s riches are very great! God’s wisdom and knowledge have no end! No person can explain the things God decides. No person can understand God’s ways.
But you people are hard and stubborn. You refuse to change. So you are making your own punishment greater and greater. You will get that punishment on the day when God will show his anger. On that day people will see God’s right judgments.
\{Don’t ask that.\} You are only people. And people have no right to question God. A clay jar does not question the man that made it. The jar does not say, “Why did you make me like this?”
Each of these four living things had six wings. These living things were covered all over with eyes, inside and out. Day and night these four living things never stop saying: