Job 4:17
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Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Shall mortal.

Job 8:3 Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?

Job 9:2 Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God.

Job 35:2 Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God?

Job 40:8 Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?

Genesis 18:25 Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Psalm 145:17 The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works.

Ecclesiastes 7:20 For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

Jeremiah 12:1 Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly?

Romans 2:5 But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God:

Romans 3:4-7 But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged. . . .

Romans 9:20 O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?

Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

shall a man.

Job 9:30,31 If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean: . . .

Job 14:4 Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?

Job 15:14 What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?

Job 25:4 Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?

Mark 7:20-23 But he said that the things which come out from a man, they defile a man. . . .

Revelation 4:8 And the four living creatures had each of them six wings: and round about and within they are full of eyes. And they rested not day and night, saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.

Context
Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper
16There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind. 17Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?18Behold, they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:…
Cross References
Job 4:16
There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind.

Job 9:2
Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God.

Job 25:4
Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?

Job 31:15
Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?

Job 32:22
For I know not how long I shall continue, and whether after a while my Maker may take me away.

Job 35:10
And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night?

Job 36:3
I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my Maker just.

Psalm 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Lexicon
‘Can a [mortal]
הַֽ֭אֱנוֹשׁ (ha·’ĕ·nō·wōš)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

be more righteous
יִצְדָּ֑ק (yiṣ·dāq)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6663: To be just or righteous

than God,
מֵאֱל֣וֹהַ (mê·’ĕ·lō·w·ha)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 433: God -- a deity, the Deity

or
אִ֥ם (’im)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

a man
גָּֽבֶר׃ (gā·ḇer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1397: A valiant man, warrior, a person simply

more pure
יִטְהַר־ (yiṭ·har-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2891: To be clean or pure

than his Maker?
מֵ֝עֹשֵׂ֗הוּ (mê·‘ō·śê·hū)
Preposition-m | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make


Additional Translations
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

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

What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? or a man be blameless in regard to his works?

Shall [mortal] man be more just than +God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?

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

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

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

'Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?
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