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Job 15:14
14What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 15:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- New International Version (NIV)“What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?
- English Standard Version (ESV)What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
- New King James Version (NKJV)“What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous?
Context of Job 15:14
12Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink? 13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest words go out of thy mouth? What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight: 16How much less the abominable and corrupt, — man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
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מָֽה־אֱנ֥וֹשׁ כִּֽי־יִזְכֶּ֑ה וְכִֽי־יִ֝צְדַּ֗ק יְל֣וּד אִשָּֽׁה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 15:14
- Job 9:2Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with God?
- Job 14:4Who can bring a clean [man] out of the unclean? Not one!
- Job 25:4And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?
- 1 Kings 8:46If they have sinned against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and give them up to the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto the enemy's land, far or near;
- 2 Chronicles 6:36If they have sinned against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not), and thou be angry with them, and give them up to the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto a land far off or near;
- Psalms 14:3They have all gone aside, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one.
- Psalms 51:5Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, 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?
- Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.
- John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
- Romans 7:18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right [I find] not.
- Galatians 3:22but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should be given to those that believe.
- Ephesians 2:2in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:
- 1 John 1:8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Commentaries on Job 15:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14What is man, that he should be clean? - אנוש מה mah enosh ; what is weak, sickly, dying, miserable man, that he should be clean? This is the import of the original word enosh. And - born of a woman, that he should be righteous? - It appears, from many passages in the sacred writings, that natural birth was supposed to be a defilement; and that every man born into the world was in a state of moral pollution. Perhaps the word יצדק yitsdak should be…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14What is man that he should be clean? - The object of Eliphaz in this is to overturn the positions of Job that he was righteous, and had been punished beyond his deserts. He had before maintained Job 4:7, that no one ever perished being innocent, and that the righteous were not cut off. This was with him a favorite position; and indeed the whole drift of the argument maintained by him and his friends was, to prove that uncommon calamities were proof of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14What is man, that he should be pure: Eliphaz repeated himself and Job (4:17–19; 7:17; 14:4). one born of woman: Both man and born of woman suggest weakness.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. Eliphaz repeats the revelation (Job 4:17) in substance, but using Job's own words (see on Job 14:1, on "born of a woman") to strike him with his own weapons.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 15
- 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
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