Job 4:17

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What does Job 4:17 mean?

Job 4:17 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Job 4:17

• Job 9:2

  I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

• Job 25:4

  How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

• Ecclesiastes 7:20

  For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

• Psalms 143:2

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

• Jeremiah 17:9

  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

• Romans 11:33

  O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

• Job 35:2

  Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?

• Jeremiah 12:1

  Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

• Mark 7:20-23

  And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

• Romans 2:5

  But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

• Job 40:8

  Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

• Romans 9:20

  Nay but, 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?

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Context

• Job 4:16

  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,

• Job 4:17

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

• Job 4:18

  Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

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