Job 4:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Job 4:17 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
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!

Topics

Angel (a Spirit)Assurance Atheism Attributes of God Believing Creation Depravity of Man Faith

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-21)

Eliphaz, having undertaken to convince Job of the sin and folly of his discontent and impatience, here vouches a vision he had been favoured with, which he relates to Job for his conviction. What comes immediately from God all men will pay a particular deference to, and Job, no doubt, as much as any. Some think Eliphaz had this vision now lately, since he came to Job, putting words into his mouth…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. mortal man ... a man--Two Hebrew words for “man” are used; the first implying his feebleness; the second his strength. Whether feeble or strong, man is not righteous before God. more just than God ... more pure than his maker--But this would be self-evident without an oracle.