Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Job 4:17, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Job 9:2
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
- Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
- Ecclesiastes 7:20
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
- Psalms 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
- Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- Romans 11:33
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
- Job 35:2
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
- Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefor…
- Mark 7:20
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
- Job 35:10
But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
- Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Psalms 145:17
The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
More to meet God in Job
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.