Job 4:17
Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
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Shall mortal.

Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Job 9:2
"Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

Job 35:2
"Do you think it is just when you say, 'I am righteous before God.'?

Job 40:8
Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?

Genesis 18:25
Far be it from You to do such a thing--to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?"

Psalm 143:2
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

Psalm 145:17
The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.

Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

Romans 2:5
But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

Romans 3:4-7
Absolutely not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: "So that You may be justified in Your words, and prevail in Your judgments." . . .

Romans 9:20
But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?"

Romans 11:33
O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

shall a man.

Job 9:30, 31
If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, . . .

Job 14:4
Who can bring clean out of unclean? No one!

Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 25:4
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure--who can understand it?

Mark 7:20-23
He continued: "What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him. . . .

Revelation 4:8
And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!"

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
'Can mankind be just before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
"Can a person be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?"

International Standard Version
Can a mortal person be more righteous than God? Or can the purity of the valiant exceed that of his maker?'

NET Bible
"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?
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