Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
'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?
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?
NET Bible
"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?
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 couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then 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 puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
Names
Cross References
Job 9:2
"Truly 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 who is born of a woman be clean?
Genesis 18:25
Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Or does Shaddai pervert righteousness?
Job 9:30-31
If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
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? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 35:2
"Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'
Job 35:10
But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
Job 40:8
Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
Psalm 143:2
Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
Psalm 145:17
The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.
Jeremiah 12:1
You are righteous, LORD, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who 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
He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.
Romans 2:5
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Romans 3:4-7
May it never be. Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."
Romans 9:20
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
Romans 11:33
Oh 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
The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. 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."