Job 15:14
12 Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
13 as you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
15 If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,
16 how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- KJV
- What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- WEB
- What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- ASV
- What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- DARBY
- What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- BLB
- What [is] man that he should be pure, or that he should be righteous, one born of woman?
- ÅB
- Hva er et menneske, at han skulle være ren, og en som er født av en kvinne, at han skulle være rettferdig?
- OTB
- Hva er mennesket, at de kunne være rene,
eller de som er født av en kvinne, at de kunne være rettferdige? - B1930
- Hvad er et menneske, at han skulde være ren, og en som er født av en kvinne, at han skulde være rettferdig?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Read in contextJob 14:4
Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
Read in contextProverbs 20:9
Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
Read in contextRomans 7:18
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
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 14:3
All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
Read in context1 Kings 8:46
When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,
Read in context1 John 1:8–10
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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