Job 4:17
Shall enosh (mortal man) be seen as righteous by Eloah? 1 Shall a man be tahor before his Maker? + 4:17 See Gn 15:6 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 18:25That be far from Thee to do after this manner, to slay the tzaddik with the rasha; and that the tzaddik should be as the rasha, that be far from Thee: Shall not HaShofet Kol Ha'Aretz (the Judge of All the Earth) do mishpat (right)?
Job 9:2I know it is indeed thus, 1 but how should yitzdak Enosh im El (Man be in the right, justified, before G-d)? 1
Job 14:4Who can bring a tahor (clean thing) out of a tameh (an unclean)? + 14:4 cf. Ro 5:12 1 Loh echad (No one). 1
Job 25:4Mah yitzdak Enosh im El (how then can man be justified, set right, with G-d?) 1 Or how can he be clean that is born of isha? 1
Job 35:10But none saith, Where is Eloah Osai (G-d my Maker), 1 Who giveth zemirot balailah (songs in the night); 1
Psalms 143:2And enter not into mishpat with Thy eved; 1 for in Thy sight shall no man living be yitzadak (justified). 1
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 →