Job 4:17
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
KJV
Numquid homo, Dei comparatione, justificabitur ? aut factore suo purior erit vir ?
Vulgate
Τί γάρ; μὴ καθαρὸς ἔσται βροτὸς ἐναντίον τοῦ κυρίου; ἢ ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ ἄμεμπτος ἀνήρ;
LXX
Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
ASV
הַֽ֭/אֱנוֹשׁ מֵ/אֱל֣וֹהַ יִצְדָּ֑ק אִ֥ם מֵ֝/עֹשֵׂ֗/הוּ יִטְהַר גָּֽבֶר
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֱל֣וֹהַּ
'lvh
noun · 60×
אֱנ֣וֹשׁ
'nvsh
noun · 41×
אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
גֶ֣בֶר
gbr
noun · 65×
הַצְדִּ֣יק
htsdyq
verb · 41×
טָהֵֽר
thr
verb · 95×
יַּ֥עַשׂ
y'sh
verb · 2621×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Eccl 7:20 — For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
- Jer 12:1 — Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
- Jer 17:9 — The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- Job 9:2 — I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
- Job 9:2 — I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
- Job 9:20 — If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
- Job 15:14 — What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 25:4 — How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
- Job 25:4 — How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
- Job 35:2 — Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
- Job 35:10 — But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
- Job 40:8 — Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
- Mark 7:20 — And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
- Ps 143:2 — And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
- Ps 143:2 — And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
- Ps 145:17 — The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
- Rev 4:8 — And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to
- Rom 2:5 — But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
- Rom 3:4 — God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
- Rom 9:20 — Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
- Rom 11:33 — O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!