Job 14:4
Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed ? is it not thou who only art?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 5:3And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son to his own image and likeness, and called his name Seth.
Job 25:4Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?
Psalms 51:7For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.
Luke 1:35And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
Romans 5:12Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.
Ephesians 2:3In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children 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 →