American Standard Version
Job 14:4
4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job 14:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
- New International Version (NIV)Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
- English Standard Version (ESV)Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!
Context of Job 14:4
2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. 5Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; 6Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
Read all of Job 14Job 14:4 word by word
מִֽי־יִתֵּ֣ן טָ֭הוֹר מִטָּמֵ֗א לֹ֣א אֶחָֽד׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 14:4
- Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
- Genesis 5:3And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
- Psalms 51:5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.
- Psalms 90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
- Romans 5:12Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:—
- Romans 8:8and they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
- Ephesians 2:3among whom we also all once lived 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:—
- Luke 1:35And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of God.
Commentaries on Job 14:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Who can bring a clean thing - This verse is thus rendered by the Chaldee: "Who will produce a clean thing from man, who is polluted with sins, except God, who is one?" By Coverdale thus: Who can make it cleane, that commeth of an uncleane thinge? No body. The text refers to man's original and corrupt nature. Every man that is born into the world comes into it in a corrupt or sinful state. This is called original sin; and is derived from fallen Adam, who…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Who can bring a clean - thing “out of an unclean?” This is evidently a proverb or an adage; but its connection here is not very apparent. Probably, however, it is designed as a plea of mitigation for his conscious frailties and infirmities. He could not but admit that he had faults. But he asks, how could it be expected to be otherwise? He belonged to a race that was sinful and depraved. Connected with such a race, how could it be otherwise than that he…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. A plea in mitigation. The doctrine of original sin was held from the first. "Man is unclean from his birth, how then can God expect perfect cleanness from such a one and deal so severely with me?"Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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