욥기 4:17
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Context
This verse from 욥기 Chapter 4 connects to 10 cross-references. 아하수에로 왕이 하만을 높여 모든 신하가 절하게 한다. 모르드개가 절하기를 거부하자 하만이 분노하여 모르드개의 민족인 유대인 전체를 말살하려는 음모를 꾸민다. 하만이 왕에게 유대인들을 멸하도록 허락을 얻어 전국에 칙령을 내린다.
다른 번역본
Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
`Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?
May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?
상호 참조
Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore …
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and …
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.