Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
New American Standard Bible
Can a man be pure
King James Version
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Holman Bible
or a man more pure than his Maker?”
International Standard Version
"Can a mortal person be more righteous than God? Or can the purity of the valiant exceed that of his maker?'
A Conservative Version
Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Amplified
‘Can [mortal] man be just before God or be more righteous than He?
Can a man be pure before his Maker or be more cleansed than He?
Bible in Basic English
May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?
Darby Translation
Shall mortal man be more just than +God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?
Julia Smith Translation
Shall a man be just above God? If a man shall be pure above him making him?
King James 2000
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Lexham Expanded Bible
'Can a human being be more righteous than God, or can a man be more pure than his Maker?
Modern King James verseion
Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
'Shall man be more just than God? Or shall man be purer than his maker?
NET Bible
"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?
New Heart English Bible
'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
The Emphasized Bible
Shall, mortal man, be more just than GOD? Or a man be more pure than, his Maker?
Webster
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
World English Bible
'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
Youngs Literal Translation
'Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 4:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Secret Was Told To Me
16 It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; A form was before mine eyes: There was'silence, and I heard a voice,'saying , 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? 18 Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; And his angels he chargeth with folly:
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Cross References
Job 9:2
Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?
Job 25:4
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Genesis 18:25
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Job 8:3
Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Job 9:30-31
If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 35:2
Thinkest thou this to be thy right, Or'sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God's,
Job 35:10
But none saith, Where is God my Maker, Who giveth songs in the night,
Job 40:8
Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?
Psalm 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.
Psalm 145:17
Jehovah is righteous in all his ways, And gracious in all his works.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
Mark 7:20-23
And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man.
Romans 2:5
but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Romans 3:4-7
God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.
Romans 9:20
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?
Romans 11:33
O 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!
Revelation 4:8
and the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and 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.