Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
World English Bible
In The King James Version
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
In Context
13that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
15Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
Job 9:2“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Psalms 14:2The LORD looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
Psalms 51:5Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.
Proverbs 20:9Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin”?
Matthew Henry on Job 15:2-17
Second Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, 2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? 4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. 7 Art thou the first… Read the whole commentary →