Job 4:17

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

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

In Context

16It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

18Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:25May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Job 9:2“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

Job 35:10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

Psalms 143:2Don’t enter into judgement with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

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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