Job 4:17
May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
In Context
18Truly, he puts no faith in his servants, and he sees error in his angels;
Cross References
Genesis 18:25Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?
Job 9:2Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?
Job 14:4If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
Job 25:4How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?
Job 35:10But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;
Psalms 143:2Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.
Matthew Henry on Job 4:13-21
12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, 14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. 15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: 16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his… Read the whole commentary →