Job 4:17
Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?"
Word-by-Word Analysis
מָמוֹת
mâmôwth
a mortal disease; concretely, a corpse
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
טָהוֹר
ṭâhôwr
pure (in a physical, chemical, ceremonial or moral sense)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Key Terms in This Verse
אִישׁ ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Study H376 →אִישׁ ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Study H376 →אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a supe...
Study H430 →Cross References
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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!
But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to ...
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do rig...
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
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