Job 4:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁷ ‘Can a mortal be righteous before God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker? ’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ 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)

¹⁷ Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Common English Bible

¹⁷ “Can a human be more righteous than God, a person purer than their maker?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ Shall man be justified in comparison of God; or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Job 4:17 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 18:25

You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. You could not possibly do that! Won’t the Judge of the whole earth do what is just? ’

Job 14:4

Who can produce something pure from what is impure? No one!

Job 15:14

What is a mere human, that he should be pure, or one born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 25:4

How can a human be justified before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Job 31:15

Did not the one who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same God form us both in the womb?

Job 32:22

For I do not know how to give such titles; otherwise, my Maker would remove me in an instant.

Job 35:10

But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who provides us with songs in the night,

Job 35:2

Do you think it is just when you say, ‘I am righteous before God’?

Job 36:3

I will get my knowledge from a distant place and ascribe justice to my Maker.

Job 4:16

A figure stood there, but I could not recognise its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes. I heard a whispering voice:

Job 40:8

Would you really challenge my justice? Would you declare me guilty  to justify yourself?

Job 8:3

Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Job 9:2

Yes, I know what you’ve said is true, but how can a person be justified before God?

Ecclesiastes 7:20

There is certainly no one righteous on the earth who does good and never sins.

Jeremiah 12:1

You will be righteous, Lord, even if I bring a case against you. Yet I wish to contend with you: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the treacherous live at ease?

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable #– #who can understand it?

Romans 11:33

Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgements and untraceable his ways!

Romans 2:5

Because of your hardened and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath  for yourself in the day of wrath,  when God’s righteous judgement is revealed.

Romans 9:20

On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?  Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this? ’

Revelation 4:8

Each of the four living creatures had six wings;  they were covered with eyes around and inside. Day and night  they never stop,  saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, the Almighty, who was, who is, and who is to come.