Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Updated King James Version
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 saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46If they sin against you, (for there is no man that sins not,) and you 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 truthfully: 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 formed 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 →