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

Shall

מָמוֹת

mâmôwth

H4463

a mortal disease; concretely, a corpse

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אִישׁ

ʼîysh

H376

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)

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be more just than

אֱלֹהִים

ʼĕlôhîym

H430

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...

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shall a

אִישׁ

ʼîysh

H376

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)

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be more

טָהוֹר

ṭâhôwr

H2889

pure (in a physical, chemical, ceremonial or moral sense)

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than his

עָשָׂה

ʻâsâh

H6213

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

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Key Terms in This Verse

mortal H4463

מָמוֹת mâmôwth

a mortal disease; concretely, a corpse

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maker H6213

עָשָׂה ʻâsâh

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

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pure H2889

טָהוֹר ṭâhôwr

pure (in a physical, chemical, ceremonial or moral sense)

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man 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)

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man 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)

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God H430

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...

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Cross References

Job 9:2 cross-reference

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

Job 25:4 cross-reference

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Ecclesiastes 7:20 cross-reference

For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Psalm 143:2 cross-reference

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

Jeremiah 17:9 cross-reference

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Romans 11:33 cross-reference

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!

Job 35:10 cross-reference

But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

Jeremiah 12:1 cross-reference

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?

Romans 9:20 cross-reference

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?

Job 35:2 cross-reference

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?

Psalm 145:17 cross-reference

The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

Romans 2:5 cross-reference

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;

Revelation 4:8 cross-reference

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 ...

Job 15:14 cross-reference

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 40:8 cross-reference

Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

Job 8:3 cross-reference

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

Genesis 18:25 cross-reference

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...

Job 14:4 cross-reference

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

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