Job 14:4

Who gives a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

In Context

3Also—on this You have opened Your eyes, and bring me into judgment with You.

5If his days are determined, || The number of his months [are] with You, || You have made his limit, || And he does not pass over;

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Cross References

Genesis 5:3And Adam lives one hundred and thirty years [[ or two hundred and thirty years]], and begets [a son] in his likeness, according to his image, and calls his name Seth.

Job 25:4And what? Is man righteous with God? And what? Is he pure—born of a woman?

Psalms 51:7You cleanse me with hyssop and I am clean, || Wash me, and I am whiter than snow.

Luke 1:35And the messenger answering said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you, therefore also the holy-begotten thing will be called Son of God;

Romans 5:12because of this, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin—death; and thus to all men death passed through, for that all sinned;

Ephesians 2:3among whom we also all walked once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath—as also the others,

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 →

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