Job 14:4

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; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not. 3Yet dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? Who can bring a clean [man] out of the unclean? Not one! 5If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, [and] thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass, 6Look away from him; and let him rest, till he accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

Job 14:4 word by word

מִֽי־יִתֵּ֣ן טָ֭הוֹר מִטָּמֵ֗א לֹ֣א אֶחָֽד׃Read the interlinear

• cleanטָהוֹרţâhôr ţâhôr · pureH2889
• uncleanטָמֵאţâmê' · uncleanH2931
• oneאֶחָד'echâd · oneH259

Cross-references for Job 14:4

• Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Job 25:4And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?
• Genesis 5:3And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot [a son] in his likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth.
• Psalms 51:5Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, 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 [that] groweth up:
• John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
• Romans 5:12For this [cause], even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
• Romans 8:8and they that are in flesh cannot please God.
• Ephesians 2:3among whom we also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:
• Luke 1:35And the angel answering said to her, [The] Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and power of [the] Highest overshadow thee, wherefore the holy thing also which shall be born shall be called 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

Topics related to Job 14:4

• Depravity of Man
• Heredity
• Readings, Select
• Sin
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Awake
• Born
• Change
• Clean
• Plow
• Raise
• Sew
• Stock
• Wait
• Waste

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