Job 14:4
For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
In Context
3Hast thou not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgment before thee?
Cross References
Genesis 5:3And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own form, and after his own image, and he called his name Seth.
Job 25:4For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?
Psalms 51:7Therefore may God destroy thee for ever, may he pluck thee up and utterly remove thee from thy dwelling, and thy root from the land of the living. Pause.
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 →