Job 4:17
Job · Old Testament · Chapter 4
“Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?”Job 4:17
What Does Job 4:17 Mean?
Job 4:17 is found in the book of Job, chapter 4, verse 17 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Job 4:17 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
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 9:20“If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.”Job 15:14“What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?”Job 35:2“Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?”Job 35:10“But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;”Job 40:8“Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?”Psalms 145:17“The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.”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“And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth 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;”Romans 3:4“God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.”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?”Revelation 4:8“And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.”Genesis 18:25“That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”Job 8:3“Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?”
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