New International Version
Job 15:14
14“What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could 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?
- 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?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Can any mortal be pure? Can anyone born of a woman be just?
Context of Job 15:14
12Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash, 13so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth? “What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous? 15If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes, 16how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water!
Read all of Job 15Job 15:14 word by word
מָֽה־אֱנ֥וֹשׁ כִּֽי־יִזְכֶּ֑ה וְכִֽי־יִ֝צְדַּ֗ק יְל֣וּד אִשָּֽׁה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 15:14
- Job 9:2“Indeed, I know that this is true. But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?
- Job 14:4Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
- Job 25:4How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- 1 Kings 8:46“When they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you become angry with them and give them over to their enemies, who take them captive to their own lands, far away or near;
- 2 Chronicles 6:36“When they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you become angry with them and give them over to the enemy, who takes them captive to a land far away or near;
- Psalms 14:3All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
- Psalms 51:5Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
- Proverbs 20:9Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin”?
- Ecclesiastes 7:20Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous, no one who does what is right and never sins.
- John 3:6Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.
- Romans 7:18For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
- Galatians 3:22But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.
- Ephesians 2:2in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.
- 1 John 1:8If we claim to be without 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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