Job 4:17

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

In Context

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:

18Behold they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:

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Cross References

Genesis 18:25Far 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.

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

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

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

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

Psalms 143:2I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made supplication to the Lord.

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 →

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