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“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
• Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
• Eccl 7:20Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn’t sin.
• Ps 143:2Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
• Rom 11:33Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
• Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
• Rom 2:5But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
• Rom 3:4–7May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”
• Jer 12:1You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
• Job 35:10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
• Job 35:2“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’
• Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Ps 145:17Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
• Job 40:8Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
• Rev 4:8The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”
• Mark 7:20–23He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.
• Rom 9:20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
• Job 9:30–31If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
• Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
• Gen 18:25Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
• Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

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