Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

'Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

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?

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?

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 standeth, and I discern not its aspect, A similitude is over-against mine eyes, Silence! and a voice I hear: 17 'Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner? 18 Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.'



Cross References

Job 9:2

Truly I have known that it is so, And what -- is man righteous with God?

Job 25:4

And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been -- as the righteous so the wicked -- far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?'

Job 8:3

Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

Job 9:30-31

If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,

Job 14:4

Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

Job 15:14

What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

Job 35:2

This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- 'My righteousness is more than God's?'

Job 35:10

And none said, 'Where is God my maker? Giving songs in the night,

Job 40:8

Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

Psalm 143:2

And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.

Psalm 145:17

Righteous is Jehovah in all His ways, And kind in all His works.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous art Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers.

Jeremiah 17:9

Crooked is the heart above all things, And it is incurable -- who doth know it?

Mark 7:20-23

And he said -- 'That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man;

Romans 2:5

but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Romans 3:4-7

let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, 'That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

Romans 9:20

nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form it, Why me didst thou make thus?

Romans 11:33

O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

Revelation 4:8

And the four living creatures, each by itself severally, had six wings, around and within are full of eyes, and rest they have not day and night, saying, 'Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is coming;'

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