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

Bible References

Shall mortal

Shall God pervert that which is right or shall the Almighty pervert justice?

I know it is so of a truth, but how shall a man be justified with God?

Dost thou think this to be right, when thou didst say, I am more righteous than God?

Wilt thou disannul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou may be justified?

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

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

Tzaddi The LORD is righteous in all his ways and merciful in all his works.

For surely there is not a just man upon earth that in doing good does not sin.

Righteous art thou, O LORD, even though I dispute with thee: even so, I will speak judgments with thee; Why does the way of the wicked prosper? All those that completely rebel against thee have peace.

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

No, in no wise: for God is true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That thou might be justified in thy words and might overcome when thou dost judge.

Rather, O man, who art thou to reply 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 of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible 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? No one.

What is man that he should be clean and that he that is born of a woman should be justified?

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

The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who shall know it?

For he had said that it is what comes out of the man that defiles the man.

And the four animals had each of them six wings about him, and they were full of eyes within, and they did not cease day or night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.