Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
In Context
3And 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 begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Psalms 51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Luke 1:35And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of God.
Romans 5:12Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:--
Ephesians 2:3among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, 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 →