17 ‘Can (A)mankind be righteous [a]before God?
Can a man be pure [b]before his (B)Maker?

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  1. Job 4:17 Lit from
  2. Job 4:17 Lit from

Does (A)God pervert justice?
Or does [a]the Almighty pervert what is right?

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  1. Job 8:3 Heb Shaddai

“In truth I know that this is so;
But how can a (A)person be in the right with God?

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(A)Who can make the clean out of the unclean?
No one!

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Indeed, you do away with [a]reverence,
And hinder meditation before God.

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  1. Job 15:4 Lit fear

Bildad Says Mankind Is Inferior

25 Then Bildad the Shuhite responded,

(A)Dominion and awe [a]belong to Him
Who makes peace in (B)His heights.
Is there any number to (C)His troops?
And upon whom does His light not rise?
How then can mankind be (D)righteous with God?
Or how can anyone who is born of woman be (E)pure?
If even (F)the moon has no brightness
And the (G)stars are not pure in His sight,
How much less (H)man, that (I)maggot,
And a son of man, that worm!”

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  1. Job 25:2 Lit are with Him

10 Who is among you who fears the Lord,
Who obeys the voice of His (A)servant,
Who (B)walks in darkness and has no light?
Let him (C)trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.
11 Behold, all you who (D)kindle a fire,
Who encircle yourselves with flaming arrows,
Walk in the light of your fire
And among the flaming arrows you have set ablaze.
This you will have from My hand:
You will (E)lie down in torment.

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But I am a (A)worm and not a person,
A (B)disgrace of mankind and (C)despised by the people.

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Christ Is Our Advocate

(A)My little children, I am (B)writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, (C)we have an [a](D)Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;

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  1. 1 John 2:1 Or Intercessor

14 For this reason I (A)bend my knees before the Father, 15 from whom [a]every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, 16 that He would grant you, according to (B)the riches of His glory, to be (C)strengthened with power through His Spirit in (D)the inner [b]self, 17 so that (E)Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being (F)rooted and (G)grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with (H)all the [c]saints what is (I)the width and length and height and depth, 19 and to know (J)the love of Christ which (K)surpasses knowledge, that you may be (L)filled to all the (M)fullness of God.

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  1. Ephesians 3:15 Or the whole
  2. Ephesians 3:16 Lit person
  3. Ephesians 3:18 See note v 8

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