17 Shall man be more [a]just than God? or shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

18 Behold, he found no steadfastness in his servants, and laid folly upon his [b]Angels.

19 How much more in them that dwell in houses of [c]clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shall be destroyed before the moth?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 4:17 He proveth that if God did punish the innocent, the creature should be more just than the Creator, which were a blasphemy.
  2. Job 4:18 If God find imperfection in his Angels, when they are not maintained by his power, how much more shall he lay folly to man’s charge when he would justify himself against God?
  3. Job 4:19 That is, in this mortal body, subject to corruption, as 2 Cor. 5:1.

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