Job 15:14
What is man that he should be immaculate, and that he should appear just, having been born of woman?
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
13Why does your spirit stir against God, so as to utter such speeches from your mouth?
15Behold, among his holy ones not one is immutable, and even the heavens are not pure in his sight.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46But if they sin against you, for there is no man who does not sin, and you, being angry, deliver them to their enemies, and they will have been led away as captives to the land of their enemies, whether far or near,
Job 9:2Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.
Job 14:4Who can make him clean who is conceived of unclean seed? Are you not the only one who can?
Psalms 14:2He who walks without blemish and who works justice.
Psalms 51:5You have loved malice above goodness, and iniquity more than speaking righteousness.
Proverbs 20:9Who is able to say: “My heart is clean. I am pure from 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 →