Cross references

Job 4:17

‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God,

or a man more pure than his Maker?

Job 4:17 BSB

Job 4:17 has 21 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Job 9:2 (10 votes) and Job 25:4 (8 votes). 8 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Genesis 18 to Revelation 4.

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Which verses does Job 4:17 point to?

The 20 strongest of 21, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Job 9:210 votes

    “Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

  2. Job 25:48 votes

    How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

  3. Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

  4. Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

  5. The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

  6. O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

  7. Job 15:143 votes

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

  8. Job 35:23 votes

    “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

  9. Job 35:103 votes

    But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

  10. Job 40:83 votes

    Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?

  11. Romans 2:53 votes
  12. Job 8:32 votes

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

Which verses point to Job 4:17?

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