Job 4:17

Job chapter 4 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.16It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; A form was before mine eyes: There wassilence, and I heard a voice, saying,

v.17This passage

v.18Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; And his angels he chargeth with folly:

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Revelation 4:8
And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, isthe Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
Psalms 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.
Job 8:3
Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Genesis 18:25
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?