Job 4:17

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Summary

Job 4:17

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

Shall mortal

Shall a man

Revelation 4:8

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Shall mortal

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

Shall a man

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.