Job 14:4

If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

In Context

3Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

5If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

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Cross References

Genesis 5:3Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth:

Job 25:4How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

Psalms 51:7\51:5\Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

Luke 1:35And the angel in answer said to her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will come to rest on you, and so that which will come to birth will be named holy, Son of God.

Romans 5:12For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:

Ephesians 2:3Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

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 →

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