Job 15:14
What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
In Context
13So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?
15Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;
Job 9:2Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?
Job 14:4If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
Psalms 14:2The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.
Psalms 51:5\51:3\For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.
Proverbs 20:9Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?
Matthew Henry on Job 15:2-17
Second Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, 2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? 4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. 7 Art thou the first… Read the whole commentary →