Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
In Context
3Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
Cross References
Genesis 5:3Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
Psalms 51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Luke 1:35The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.
Romans 5:12Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death passed to all men because all sinned.
Ephesians 2:3We also all once lived among them in the lusts 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 →