Job 14:4
Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean? Not one.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
In Context
3And dost thou fix thine eyes upon such a one? And dost thou bring me into judgment with thee?
Cross References
Job 25:4How then can man be righteous before? Or how can he be pure that is born of woman?
Psalms 51:7Purge me with hyssop, until I be clean; Wash me, until I be whiter than snow!
Luke 1:35And the angel answering said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon thee, and the power of the Most High will overshadow thee; wherefore the holy one that is to be born will be called the Son of God.
Romans 5:12So then as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and thus [[death]] came through unto all men, because all sinned—
Ephesians 2:3among whom even we all had our way of life in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as 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 →