Job 4:17 · KJV
“Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?”
— Job 4:17
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}, {there...: or, I heard a still voice}
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: {and his...: or, nor in his angels, in whom he put light}
Job 4 — Context
Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
16It 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}, {there...: or, I heard a still voice}
17Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
18Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: {and his...: or, nor in his angels, in whom he put light}
19How much less {in} them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation {is} in the dust, {which} are crushed before the moth?
Cross References
Job 9:2
I know {it is} so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? {with God: or, before 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.
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!
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart {is} deceitful above all {things}, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Psalms 145:17
The LORD {is} righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. {holy: or, merciful, or, bountiful}
Job 35:10
But none saith, Where {is} God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;