‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His w
But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God
He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him.
And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they
Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the wa
Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak a
But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like th
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are tr
Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?