Job 4:17 Cross References - LEB

¹⁷ 'Can a human being be more righteous than God, or can a man be more pure than his Maker?

²⁵ Far be it from you to do such a thing as this, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that* the righteous would be as the wicked! Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do justice?"

³ Does God pervert justice, _⌊or_⌋* Shaddai pervert righteousness?

² "Truly I know that it is so, but* how can a human being be just before God?

³⁰ If I wash myself with soap,* and I cleanse my hands with lye, ³¹ then you plunge me into the slime pit, and my clothes abhor me.

⁴ "Who can bring a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!*

¹⁴ "What is a human being, that he can be clean, or* that one born of a woman can be righteous?

⁴ "Indeed,* how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?

² "Do you think this is justice when you say, '_⌊I am right_⌋* before God'?

¹⁰ But* no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

⁸ "Indeed, would you annul my justice? Would you condemn me, so that you might be righteous?

² And do not enter into judgment with your servant, because no one alive is righteous before you.

¹⁷ Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and loyal in all his works.

²⁰ Surely there is no one righteous on the earth who continually does good and never sins.

¹ You will be in the right, O Yahweh, when I complain to you. Even so, let me speak my claims with you. Why does the way of the wicked succeed? All those who deal treacherously with treachery are at ease.

⁹ The heart is deceitful more than anything else, and it is disastrous. Who can understand it?

²⁰ And he said, "What comes out of a person, that defiles a person. ²¹ For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, ²² adulteries, acts of greed, malicious deeds, deceit, licentiousness, _⌊envy_⌋,* abusive speech, pride, foolishness. ²³ All these evil things come from within and defile a person."

⁵ But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

⁴ May it never be! But let God be true but every human being a liar, just as it is written,
"In order that you may be justified in your words, and may prevail when you are* judged."* ⁵ But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, who inflicts wrath, is not unjust, is he? (I am speaking according to a human perspective.) ⁶ May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world? ⁷ But if by my lying, the truth of God abounded to his glory, why am I also still condemned as a sinner?

²⁰ On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded it, "Why did you make me like this"?*

³³ Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how incomprehensible are his ways!

⁸ And the four living creatures, _⌊each one_⌋* of them, had six wings apiece, full of eyes around and inside, and they do not have rest day and night, saying,
"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God All-Powerful,* the one who was and the one who is and the one who is coming!"