Job 4:17
‘Can anyone be right before God? Can anyone be pure before their Maker?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
In Context
18If he doesn't even trust his servants, and he says his angels make mistakes,
Cross References
Genesis 18:25No, you can't do something like that! You can't kill the good with the wicked, otherwise you would be treating the good and the wicked in the same way. You can't do that! Isn't the Judge of all the earth going to do the right thing?”
Job 9:2“Yes, I know all that! But how can anyone be right before God?
Job 14:4Who can bring something clean of what is unclean? No one.
Job 25:4How can a human being be right before God? Can anyone born of woman be pure?
Job 35:10But no one asks, ‘Where is the God my maker, the one who gives songs in the night,
Psalms 143:2Please don't place me, your servant, on trial, because nobody is innocent in your sight.
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 →