Job 25:4
Good News Translation
Can anyone be righteous or pure in God's sight?

New Revised Standard Version
How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Contemporary English Version
How can anyone be innocent in the sight of God?

New American Bible
How can anyone be in the right against God, or how can any born of woman be innocent?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?

How then

Job 4:17-19 Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker? . . .

Job 9:2 Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God.

Job 15:14-16 What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just? . . .

Psalm 130:3 If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it.

Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Romans 3:19,20 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God. . . .

Romans 5:1 Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:

how can

Job 14:3,4 And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee? . . .

Psalm 51:5 For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

Zechariah 13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain open to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: for the washing of the sinner, and of the unclean woman.

Ephesians 2:3 In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:

1 Corinthians 6:11 And such some of you were. But you are washed: but you are sanctified: but you are justified: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.

Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth, who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood

Context
Bildad: Man Cannot Be Righteous
3Is there any numbering of his soldiers? and upon whom shall not his light arise? 4Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?5Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight.…
Cross References
Job 4:17
Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Job 9:2
Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God.

Job 14:4
Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?

Job 15:14
What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?

Psalm 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Job 25:3
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