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Job 4:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" ‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? "

Job 4:17

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15 Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.

16 It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

17 ‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

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Job 9:2

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"“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?"

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Job 25:4

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"How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?"

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Wisdom 15:17

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"But, being mortal, he makes a dead thing by the work of lawless hands; for he is better than the objects of his worship, since he indeed had life, but they never did."

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Jeremiah 16:20

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"Should a man make to himself gods which yet are no gods?”"

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Romans 9:20

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"But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”"

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Romans 14:4

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"Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand."

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"Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,"

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"“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?"

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"Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands."

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"Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm."

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"But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled."

Job 4:6

"Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?"

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