Parallel Verses

NET Bible

"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

New American Standard Bible

‘Can mankind be just before God?
Can a man be pure before his Maker?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

“Can a person be more righteous than God,
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?

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?

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?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אנושׁ 
'enowsh 
Usage: 42

אלהּ אלוהּ 
'elowahh 
God, god
Usage: 57

גּבר 
Geber 
Usage: 65

be more pure
טהר 
Taher 
Usage: 94

References

American

Easton

Hastings

Smith

Context Readings

A Secret Was Told To Me

16 It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice: 17 "Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator? 18 If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,

Cross References

Job 9:2

"Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

Job 25:4

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from you to do such a thing -- to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge of the whole earth do what is right?"

Job 8:3

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Job 9:30-31

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,

Job 14:4

Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

Job 15:14

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 35:2

"Do you think this to be just: when you say, 'My right before God.'

Job 35:10

But no one says, 'Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,

Job 40:8

Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

Psalm 143:2

Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

Psalm 145:17

The Lord is just in all his actions, and exhibits love in all he does.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.

Jeremiah 12:1

Lord, you have always been fair whenever I have complained to you. However, I would like to speak with you about the disposition of justice. Why are wicked people successful? Why do all dishonest people have such easy lives?

Jeremiah 17:9

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

Mark 7:20-23

He said, "What comes out of a person defiles him.

Romans 2:5

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment is revealed!

Romans 3:4-7

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: "so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged."

Romans 9:20

But who indeed are you -- a mere human being -- to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder, "Why have you made me like this?"

Romans 11:33

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways!

Revelation 4:8

Each one of the four living creatures had six wings and was full of eyes all around and inside. They never rest day or night, saying: "Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God, the All-Powerful, Who was and who is, and who is still to come!"

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