约伯记 4:17
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Context
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其他译本
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?
交叉参考
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.