Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
All Commentaries on Job 4:17 Go To Job 4
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Maker. It is thought that these were the words of the angel. If God punish without cause, may not the sufferer esteem himself the better of the two? You must therefore be guilty. (Calmet)
Job would never dispute; but God was infinitely more pure than man, who may nevertheless be free from grievous sins. (Worthington)
The highest angel has nothing but what he has received from God, in comparison with whom he is still as a mere nothing. But this does not prove that Job was a criminal, or that he pretended to arrogate to himself any excellence, independent of the giver of all good gifts. He did not assert that he was impeccable: yet, with God's grace, he might be innocent. (Calmet)
