Job 4:17

A Secret Was Told To Me

¹⁶ Something was present before me, but I was not able to see it clearly; there was a form before my eyes: a quiet voice came to my ears, saying: ¹⁷ May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker? ¹⁸ Truly, he puts no faith in his servants, and he sees error in his angels;

Before God

Be Clean

O God

Job

Job 9:2

Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

Job 25:4

How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

Genesis 18:25

Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

Job 8:3

Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?

Job 9:30-31

If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;

Job 14:4

If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

Job 15:14

What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

Job 35:2

Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,

Job 35:10

But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

Job 40:8

Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

Ecclesiastes 7:20

There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

Jeremiah 12:1

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?

Mark 7:20-23

And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean.

Romans 2:5

But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

Romans 3:4-7

In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.

Romans 9:20

But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

Romans 11:33

O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.

Revelation 4:8

And the four beasts, having every one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and inside: and without resting day and night, they say, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, Ruler of all, who was and is and is to come.