Job 14:4
Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
In Context
3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
Cross References
Genesis 5:3When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.
Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Psalms 51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Luke 1:35The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.
Romans 5:12Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
Ephesians 2:3All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
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 →