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Job 4:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Shall mortal man
'enowsh (Hebrew #582)
properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified 120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
KJV usage: another, X (blood-)thirsty, certain, chap(-man); divers, fellow, X in the flower of their age, husband, (certain, mortal) man, people, person, servant, some ( X of them), + stranger, those, + their trade. It is often unexpressed in the English versions, especially when used in apposition with another word . Compare 376.
Pronounce: en-oshe'
Origin: from 605
be more just
tsadaq (Hebrew #6663)
to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)
KJV usage: cleanse, clear self, (be, do) just(-ice, -ify, -ify self), (be turn to) righteous(-ness).
Pronounce: tsaw-dak'
Origin: a primitive root
than God
'elowahh (Hebrew #433)
a deity or the Deity
KJV usage: God, god. See 430.
Pronounce: el-o'-ah;
Origin: probably prolonged (emphat.) from 410
? shall a man
geber (Hebrew #1397)
properly, a valiant man or warrior; generally, a person simply
KJV usage: every one, man, X mighty.
Pronounce: gheh'-ber
Origin: from 1396
be more pure
taher (Hebrew #2891)
properly, to be bright; i.e. (by implication) to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy)
KJV usage: be (make, make self, pronounce) clean, cleanse (self), purge, purify(-ier, self).
Pronounce: taw-hare'
Origin: a primitive root
than his maker
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
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Shall mortal.
Job 8:3• 3Doth *God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice? (Job 8:3)
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Job 9:2• 2Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with *God? (Job 9:2)
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Job 35:2• 2Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than *God's? (Job 35:2)
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Job 40:8• 8Wilt thou also annul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me that thou mayest be righteous? (Job 40:8)
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Gen. 18:25• 25Far be it from thee to do so, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous should be as the wicked--far be it from thee! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right? (Gen. 18:25)
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Psa. 143:2• 2And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified. (Psa. 143:2)
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Psa. 145:17• 17Jehovah is righteous in all his ways, and kind in all his works. (Psa. 145:17)
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Eccl. 7:20• 20Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not. (Eccl. 7:20)
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Jer. 12:1• 1Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of thy judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously? (Jer. 12:1)
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Rom. 2:5• 5but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, (Rom. 2:5)
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Rom. 3:4‑7• 4Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment.
 5But if our unrighteousness commend God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak according to man.
 6Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?
 7For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am *I* also judged as a sinner? (Rom. 3:4‑7)
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Rom. 9:20• 20Aye, but thou, O man, who art *thou* that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? (Rom. 9:20)
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Rom. 11:33• 33O depth of riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable his judgments, and untraceable his ways! (Rom. 11:33)
shall a man.
Job 9:30‑31• 30If I washed myself with snow-water, and cleansed my hands in purity,
 31Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me. (Job 9:30‑31)
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Job 14:4• 4Who can bring a clean man out of the unclean? Not one! (Job 14:4)
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Job 15:14• 14What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? (Job 15:14)
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Job 25:4• 4And how should man be just with *God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman? (Job 25:4)
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Jer. 17:9• 9The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it? (Jer. 17:9)
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Mark 7:20‑23• 20And he said, That which goes forth out of the man, that defiles the man.
 21For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
 22thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, a wicked eye, injurious language, haughtiness, folly;
 23all these wicked things go forth from within and defile the man. (Mark 7:20‑23)
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Rev. 4:8• 8And the four living creatures, each one of them having respectively six wings; round and within they are full of eyes; and they cease not day and night saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come. (Rev. 4:8)
• Truly, in the sight of God, all are as an unclean thing, but will that set aside the fact that there is such a thing as righteousness in the children of God? If all are thus unclean in the sight of God, then Eliphaz must take his place beside Job, a thing he is by no means ready to do, and all explanation of suffering fails. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Shall mortal manb be more just than +God? Shall a manc be purer than his Maker?

JND Translation Notes

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Enosh. see Ps. 8.4.
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Geber. see ch. 3.3.