Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”
Job 4:17 - English Standard Version 2016 ‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker? 更多版本King 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 you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
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 in the right?
Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
Righteous are you, O Lord, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
But because of 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, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”
And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”