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 4:17 - Revised Standard Version ‘Can mortal man be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker? 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? |
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?”
What is man, that he can be clean? Or he that is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
How then can man be righteous before God? How can he who is born of woman be clean?
Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
For I do not know how to flatter, else would my Maker soon put an end to me.
“Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:
Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?
Enter not into judgment with thy servant; for no man living is righteous before thee.
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
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?
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?
O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
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.
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?”
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!”