Job 4:17

¹⁵ Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.

¹⁶ It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:

‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

¹⁸ If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,

¹⁹ how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
KJV: Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
WEB: ‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
ASV: Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
DARBY: Shall [mortal] man be more just than God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?
BLB: ‘Shall a human be righteous more than God? Can a man be pure more than his Maker?

ÅB: Er et menneske rettferdig for Gud, eller en mann ren for sin skaper?
OTB: 'Kan et menneske være rettferdig for Gud?
Kan en mann være ren for sin Skaper?
B1930: Er et menneske rettferdig for Gud, eller en mann ren for sin skaper?

Job 9:2
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
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Job 25:4
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
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Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
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Psalms 143:2
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
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Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
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Romans 11:33
O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
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Job 35:2
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
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Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
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