Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
In Context
3And do thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with thee?
Cross References
Genesis 5:3And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot [a son] in his own likeness, according to his image, and called his name Seth.
Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
Psalms 51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Luke 1:35And having answered, the agent said to her, Holy Spirit will come upon thee, and the power of the Most High will overshadow thee. Therefore also the holy thing that is begotten will be called the Son of God.
Romans 5:12Because of this, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, in that all sinned.
Ephesians 2:3Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.
Matthew Henry on Job 14:2-7
Brevity and Frailty of Human Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. 5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; 6 Turn from him, that he may… Read the whole commentary →