Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean [man] out of the unclean? Not one!
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
In Context
3Yet dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
Cross References
Genesis 5:3And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot [a son] in his likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth.
Job 25:4And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?
Psalms 51:7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Luke 1:35And the angel answering said to her, [The] Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and power of [the] Highest overshadow thee, wherefore the holy thing also which shall be born shall be called Son of God.
Romans 5:12For this [cause], even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Ephesians 2:3among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as 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 →