Job 4:17

In 11 translations

BSB

‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Is mortal man more righteous than God? Is a man cleaner than his Maker?

YLT

'Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

DBY

Shall [mortal] man be more just than God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?Eloah

DRC

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

GNV

Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be more pure then his maker?

JPS

'Shall mortal man be just before God? Shall a man be pure before his Maker?

LXXE

What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? or a man be blameless in regard to his works?

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WLC

הַֽ֭אֱנוֹשׁ מֵאֱל֣וֹהַ יִצְדָּ֑ק אִ֥ם מֵ֝עֹשֵׂ֗הוּ יִטְהַר־גָּֽבֶר׃

LXX-Br

Τί γάρ; μὴ καθαρὸς ἔσται βροτὸς ἐναντίον τοῦ Κυρίου; ἢ ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ ἄμεμπτος ἀνήρ;

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• Job 9:2“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
• Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
• Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
• Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
• Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
• Romans 11:33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
• Job 35:2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
• Mark 7:20–23He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him. For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander,…
• Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
• Romans 3:4–7Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.” But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God,…
• Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
• Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
• Revelation 4:8And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
• Jeremiah 12:1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
• Psalms 145:17The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
• Romans 9:20But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

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