Job 4:17
What does Job 4:17 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 4:17 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Shall [mortal] man be more just thanGod? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?
Context
Cross references
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?
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