Job 4:17
Good News Translation
"Can anyone be righteous in the sight of God or be pure before his Creator?

New Revised Standard Version
‘Can mortals be righteous before God? Can human beings be pure before their Maker?

Contemporary English Version
"No humans are innocent in the eyes of God their Creator.

New American Bible
“Can anyone be more in the right than God? Can mortals be more blameless than their Maker?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Shall mortal.

Job 8:3 Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?

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

Job 35:2 Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God?

Job 40:8 Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?

Genesis 18:25 Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

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

Psalm 145:17 The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works.

Ecclesiastes 7:20 For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

Jeremiah 12:1 Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly?

Romans 2:5 But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God:

Romans 3:4-7 But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged. . . .

Romans 9:20 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?

Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

shall a man.

Job 9:30,31 If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean: . . .

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?

Job 25:4 Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?

Mark 7:20-23 But he said that the things which come out from a man, they defile a man. . . .

Revelation 4:8 And the four living creatures had each of them six wings: and round about and within they are full of eyes. And they rested not day and night, saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.

Context
Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper
16There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind. 17Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?18Behold, they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:…
Cross References
Job 4:16
There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind.

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

Job 25:4
Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?

Job 31:15
Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?

Job 32:22
For I know not how long I shall continue, and whether after a while my Maker may take me away.

Job 35:10
And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night?

Job 36:3
I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my Maker just.

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

Job 4:16
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