Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
King James Version
In Context
13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
Job 9:2I know it is so of a truth: but how should 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 upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
Psalms 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Proverbs 20:9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my 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 →