Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
'Can a human being be more righteous than God, or can 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?
American Standard 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?
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 recognize its appearance; a form [was] {before} my eyes; [there was] a hush, and I heard a voice: 17 'Can a human being be more righteous than God, or can a man be more pure than his Maker? 18 Look, he does not trust in his servants and he charges his angels with error.
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Cross References
Job 9:2
"Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being be just before God?
Job 25:4
"Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?
Genesis 18:25
Far be it from you to do such a thing as this, to kill [the] righteous with [the] wicked, that the righteous would be as the wicked! Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do justice?"
Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice, {or} Shaddai pervert righteousness?
Job 9:30-31
If I wash myself with soap, and I cleanse my hands with lye,
Job 14:4
"Who can bring a clean [thing] from an unclean [thing]? No one!
Job 15:14
"What [is] a human being, that he can be clean, or that [one] born of a woman can be righteous?
Job 35:2
"Do you think this [is] justice when you say, '{I am right} before God'?
Job 35:10
But no one says, 'Where [is] God my Maker, [who] gives songs in the night,
Job 40:8
"Indeed, would you annul my justice? Would you condemn me, so that you might be righteous?
Psalm 143:2
And do not enter into judgment with your servant, because no one alive [is] righteous before you.
Psalm 145:17
Yahweh [is] righteous in all his ways, and loyal in all his works.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is no one righteous on the earth who [continually] does good and never sins.
Jeremiah 12:1
You [will be] in the right, Yahweh, when I complain to you. Even so, let me speak [my] claims with you. Why does [the] way of [the] wicked succeed? All those who deal treacherously with treachery are at ease.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart [is] deceitful more than anything else, and it [is] disastrous. Who can understand it?
Mark 7:20-23
And he said, "What comes out of a person, that defiles a person.
Romans 2:5
But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
Romans 3:4-7
May it never be! But let God be true but every human being a liar, just as it is written, "In order that you may be justified in your words, and may prevail when you are judged."
Romans 9:20
On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded [it], "Why did you make me like this"?
Romans 11:33
Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable [are] his judgments and [how] incomprehensible [are] his ways!
Revelation 4:8
And the four living creatures, {each one} of them, had six wings apiece, full of eyes around and inside, and they do not have rest day and night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy [is] the Lord God All-Powerful, the one who was and the one who is and the one who is coming!"