Job 4:17

A Secret Was Told To Me

¹⁶ A figure stood there,
but I could not recognize its appearance;
a form loomed before my eyes.
I heard a quiet voice:
¹⁷ “Can a person be more righteous than God,
or a man more pure than his Maker?”
¹⁸ If God puts no trust in His servants
and He charges His angels with foolishness,

Before God

Be Clean

O God

Job

Job 9:2

Yes, I know what you’ve said is true,
but how can a person be justified before God?

Job 25:4

How can a person be justified before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?

Genesis 18:25

You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. You could not possibly do that! Won’t the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

Job 8:3

Does God pervert justice?
Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Job 9:30-31

If I wash myself with snow,
and cleanse my hands with lye,

Job 14:4

Who can produce something pure from what is impure?
No one!

Job 15:14

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

Job 35:2

Do you think it is just when you say,
“I am righteous before God”?

Job 35:10

But no one asks, “Where is God my Maker,
who provides us with songs in the night,

Job 40:8

Would you really challenge My justice?
Would you declare Me guilty to justify yourself?

Psalm 143:2

Do not bring Your servant into judgment,
for no one alive is righteous in Your sight.

Psalm 145:17

The Lord is righteous in all His ways
and gracious in all His acts.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

There is certainly no righteous man on the earth
who does good and never sins.

Jeremiah 12:1

You will be righteous, Lord,
even if I bring a case against You.
Yet, I wish to contend with You:
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all the treacherous live at ease?

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is more deceitful than anything else,
and incurable—who can understand it?

Mark 7:20-23

Then He said, “What comes out of a person—that defiles him.

Romans 2:5

But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.

Romans 3:4-7

Absolutely not! God must be true, even if everyone is a liar, as it is written:

That You may be justified in Your words
and triumph when You judge.

Romans 9:20

But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Romans 11:33

Oh, the depth of the riches
both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God!
How unsearchable His judgments
and untraceable His ways!

Revelation 4:8

Each of the four living creatures had six wings; they were covered with eyes around and inside. Day and night they never stop, saying:

Holy, holy, holy,
Lord God, the Almighty,
who was, who is, and who is coming.