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Verse         Translation Text
Job 4:17 Strong Concordance Shall mortal man [0582] be more just [06663] than God [0433]? shall a man [01397] be more pure [02891] than his maker [06213]?
  King James Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
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.
 
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18 Seemeth it a small thing [04592] unto you to have eaten up [07462] the good [02896] pasture [04829], but ye must tread down [07429] with your feet [07272] the residue [03499] of your pastures [04829]? and to have drunk [08354] of the deep [04950] waters [04325], but ye must foul [07515] the residue [03498] with your feet [07272]?
29 And Moses [04872] said [0559] unto them, If the children [01121] of Gad [01410] and the children [01121] of Reuben [07205] will pass with you over [05674] Jordan [03383], every man armed [02502] to battle [04421], before [06440] the LORD [03068], and the land [0776] shall be subdued [03533] before [06440] you; then ye shall give [05414] them the land [0776] of Gilead [01568] for a possession [0272]:
5 For Israel [03478] hath not been forsaken [0488], nor Judah [03063] of his God [0430], of the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635]; though their land [0776] was filled [04390] with sin [0817] against the Holy One [06918] of Israel [03478].
6 Should I lie [03576] against my right [04941]? my wound [02671] is incurable [0605] without transgression [06588].
9 For her wound [04347] is incurable [0605]; for it is come [0935] unto Judah [03063]; he is come [05060] unto the gate [08179] of my people [05971], even to Jerusalem [03389].
18 Why is my pain [03511] perpetual [05331], and my wound [04347] incurable [0605], which refuseth [03985] to be healed [07495]? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar [0391], and as waters [04325] that fail [0539]?
1 Moreover the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto me, Take [03947] thee a great [01419] roll [01549], and write [03789] in it with a man's [0582] pen [02747] concerning Mahershalalhashbaz [04122].
23 He shall die [04191] without instruction [04148]; and in the greatness [07230] of his folly [0200] he shall go astray [07686].
12 But if they obey [08085] not, they shall perish [05674] by the sword [07973], and they shall die [01478] without knowledge [01847].
2 If we assay [05254] to commune [01697] with thee, wilt thou be grieved [03811]? but who can [03201] withhold [06113] himself from speaking [04405]?
21 Doth not their excellency [03499] which is in them go away [05265]? they die [04191], even without wisdom [02451].
12 Mine age [01755] is departed [05265], and is removed [01540] from me as a shepherd's [07473] tent [0168]: I have cut off [07088] like a weaver [0707] my life [02416]: he will cut me off [01214] with pining sickness [01803]: from day [03117] even to night [03915] wilt thou make an end [07999] of me.
8 For what is the hope [08615] of the hypocrite [02611], though he hath gained [01214], when God [0433] taketh away [07953] his soul [05315]?
9 Even that it would please [02974] God [0433] to destroy [01792] me; that he would let loose [05425] his hand [03027], and cut me off [01214] !
6 Or ever [03808] the silver [03701] cord [02256] be loosed [07576] [07368], or the golden [02091] bowl [01543] be broken [07533], or the pitcher [03537] be broken [07665] at the fountain [04002], or the wheel [01534] broken [07533] at the cistern [0953].
21 Doth not their excellency [03499] which is in them go away [05265]? they die [04191], even without wisdom [02451].
8 And the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto Satan [07854], Hast thou considered [07760] [03820] my servant [05650] Job [0347], that there is none like him in the earth [0776], a perfect [08535] and an upright [03477] man [0376], one that feareth [03373] God [0430], and escheweth [05493] evil [07451]?
1 The righteous [06662] perisheth [06], and no man [0376] layeth [07760] it to heart [03820]: and merciful [02617] men [0582] are taken away [0622], none considering [0995] that the righteous [06662] is taken away [0622] from [06440] the evil [07451] to come.
25 Therefore he hath poured [08210] upon him the fury [02534] of his anger [0639], and the strength [05807] of battle [04421]: and it hath set him on fire [03857] round about [05439], yet he knew [03045] not; and it burned [01197] him, yet he laid [07760] it not to heart [03820].
16 Count [05414] not thine handmaid [0519] for [06440] a daughter [01323] of Belial [01100]: for out of the abundance [07230] of my complaint [07879] and grief [03708] have I spoken [01696] hitherto.
24 For my sighing [0585] cometh [0935] before [06440] I eat [03899], and my roarings [07581] are poured out [05413] like the waters [04325].
19 In the sweat [02188] of thy face [0639] shalt thou eat [0398] bread [03899], till [05704] thou return [07725] unto the ground [0127]; for out of it wast thou taken [03947]: for dust [06083] thou [0859] art, and unto dust [06083] shalt thou return [07725].
7 And the LORD [03068] God [0430] formed [03335] man [0120] of the dust [06083] of [04480] the ground [0127], and breathed [05301] into his nostrils [0639] the breath [05397] of life [02416]; and man [0120] became a living [02416] soul [05315].
6 Behold, I am according to thy wish [06310] in God's [0410] stead: I also am formed [07169] out of the clay [02563].
11 And David [01732] said [0559] to Abishai [052], and to all his servants [05650], Behold, my son [01121], which came forth [03318] of my bowels [04578], seeketh [01245] my life [05315]: how much more now may this Benjamite [01145] do it? let him alone [03240], and let him curse [07043]; for the LORD [03068] hath bidden [0559] him.
18 Behold, he put no trust [0539] in his servants [05650]; and his angels [04397] he charged [07760] with folly [08417]:
19 How much less [0637] in them that dwell [07931] in houses [01004] of clay [02563], whose foundation [03247] is in the dust [06083], which are crushed [01792] before [06440] the moth [06211]?
7 And I will make [07760] her that halted [06760] a remnant [07611], and her that was cast far off [01972] a strong [06099] nation [01471]: and the LORD [03068] shall reign [04427] over them in mount [02022] Zion [06726] from henceforth, even for [05704] ever [05769].
22 In all this Job [0347] sinned [02398] not, nor charged [05414] God [0430] foolishly [08604].
12 Men [04962] groan [05008] from out of the city [05892], and the soul [05315] of the wounded [02491] crieth out [07768]: yet God [0433] layeth [07760] not folly [08604] to them.
15 Did I then [03117] begin [02490] to enquire [07592] of God [0430] for him? be it far from me [02486]: let not the king [04428] impute [07760] any thing [01697] unto his servant [05650], nor to all the house [01004] of my father [01]: for thy servant [05650] knew [03045] nothing [01697] of all this, less [06996] or more [01419].
2 Then was kindled [02734] the wrath [0639] of Elihu [0453] the son [01121] of Barachel [01292] the Buzite [0940], of the kindred [04940] of Ram [07410]: against Job [0347] was his wrath [0639] kindled [02734], because he justified [06663] himself [05315] rather than God [0430].