Job 4:17

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Job 4:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.

16 It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:

17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

18 If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,

19 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 8:3

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

Job 9:2

“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

Job 35:2

“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

Job 40:8

Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”

Psalms 143:2

Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

Psalms 145:17

The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

Romans 2:5

But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

Romans 3:4

Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”

Romans 3:5

But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

Romans 3:6

Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?

Romans 3:7

However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?

Romans 9:20

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

Romans 11:33

O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

Job 9:30

If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

Job 9:31

then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

Job 14:4

Who can bring out clean from 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 25:4

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Mark 7:20

He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him.

Mark 7:21

For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

Mark 7:22

greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

Mark 7:23

All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.”

Revelation 4:8

And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”