Job 4:17

The voice asks whether mortal man can be more righteous or pure than God his Maker. The clear answer is no, affirming that no human can claim innocence before the Creator.

Cross-references · 21

• 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?
• Eccl 7:20Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
• Ps 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
• Rom 11:33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
• Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
• Rom 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.
• Rom 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.”
• Jer 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?
• Job 35:10But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
• Job 35:2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
• Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
• Ps 145:17The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
• Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
• Rev 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!”
• Mark 7:20–23He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him.
• Rom 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?”
• Job 9:30–31If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
• Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
• Gen 18:25Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
• Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

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