Job 14:4
2 Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
3 Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
5 Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
6 look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
- KJV
- Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
- WEB
- Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
- ASV
- Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
- DARBY
- Who can bring a clean [man] out of the unclean? Not one!
- BLB
- Who will bring clean from unclean? Not one!
- ÅB
- Kunne det bare komme en ren av en uren! Ikke én!
- OTB
- Hvem kan bringe renhet fra urenhet?
Ingen kan! - B1930
- Kunde det bare komme en ren av en uren! Ikke én!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 3:6
Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
Read in contextJob 15:14
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Read in contextEphesians 2:3
All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
Read in contextRomans 8:8–9
Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.
Read in contextJob 25:4–6
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Read in contextPsalms 51:5
Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
Read in contextLuke 1:35
The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.
Read in contextRomans 5:12
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
Read in context