Job 15:14
12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity 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
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Read in contextJob 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Read in contextProverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Read in contextRomans 7:18
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Read in contextJob 25:4–6
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Read in contextPsalms 14:3
They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Read in context1 Kings 8:46
If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
Read in context1 John 1:8–10
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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