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Job 4:17

King James Version (KJV)

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Translations

Job 4:17 - Amplified Bible

Can mortal man be just before God, {or} be more right than He is? Can a man be pure before his Maker, {or} be more cleansed than He is?

Job 4:17 - American Standard Version

Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Job 4:17 - Bible in Basic English

May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

Job 4:17 - Darby Bible

Shall [mortal] man be more just than +God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?

Job 4:17 - English Standard Version

"Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Job 4:17 - King James Version

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Job 4:17 - La Biblia de las Americas

"¿Es el mortal justo delante de Dios?
¿Es el hombre puro delante de su Hacedor?

Job 4:17 - The Message

"’How can mere mortals be more righteous than God?
   How can humans be purer than their Creator?
Why, God doesn’t even trust his own servants,
   doesn’t even cheer his angels,
So how much less these bodies composed of mud,
   fragile as moths?
These bodies of ours are here today and gone tomorrow,
   and no one even notices—gone without a trace.
When the tent stakes are ripped up, the tent collapses—
   we die and are never the wiser for having lived.’"

Job 4:17 - New American Standard Bible

`Can mankind be just before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Job 4:17 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy

'¿Es el mortal justo delante de Dios?
¿Es el hombre puro delante de su Hacedor?

Job 4:17 - World English Bible

`Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Job 4:17 - Young's Living Translation

`Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

Job 4:17 - Additional Comments

Job was in effect saying that GOd made a mistake in letting him be born (chapter 3), and here Eliphaz is saying that such words make a man out to have more wisdom than God.

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