New English Translation
Job 14:4
4Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No 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 grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain. 3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment? Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one! 5Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it. 6Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.
Read all of Job 14Job 14:4 word by word
מִֽי־יִתֵּ֣ן טָ֭הוֹר מִטָּמֵ֗א לֹ֣א אֶחָֽד׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 14:4
- Job 15:14What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 25:4How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
- Genesis 5:3When Adam had lived 130 years he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and he named him Seth.
- Psalms 51:5Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.
- Psalms 90:5You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;
- John 3:6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
- Romans 5:12So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned –
- Romans 8:8Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
- Ephesians 2:3among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…
- Luke 1:35The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will 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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