Job 4:18 “If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with e…”

Job 4:18

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

World English Bible

Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

American Standard Version

Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; And his angels he chargeth with folly:

Geneva Bible 1599

Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Seruants, and laid follie vpon his Angels.

Darby Translation

Lo, he trusteth not his servants, and his angels he chargeth with folly:

Young's Literal Translation

Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.'

Bible in Basic English

Truly, he puts no faith in his servants, and he sees error in his angels;

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Cross references

“he put”

Psalm 104:4 Job 15:15 Job 15:16 Job 25:5 Job 25:6 Psalm 103:20

Psalm 104:4 · BSB

He makes the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.

Job 15:15 · BSB

If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

Job 15:16 · BSB

how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

Job 25:5 · BSB

If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,

Job 25:6 · BSB

how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

Psalm 103:20 · BSB

Bless the LORD, all His angels mighty in strength who carry out His word, who hearken to the voice of His command.

“and his angels he charged with folly”

2 Peter 2:4 Jude 1:6

2 Peter 2:4 · BSB

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

Jude 1:6 · BSB

And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

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

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