New Living Translation
Job 15:14
14Can any mortal be pure? Can anyone born of a woman be just?
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
12What has taken away your reason? What has weakened your vision, 13that you turn against God and say all these evil things? Can any mortal be pure? Can anyone born of a woman be just? 15Look, God does not even trust the angels. Even the heavens are not absolutely pure in his sight. 16How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person with a thirst for wickedness!
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“Yes, I know all this is true in principle. But how can a person be declared innocent in God’s sight?
- Job 14:4Who can bring purity out of an impure person? No one!
- Job 25:4How can a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone born of a woman be pure?
- 1 Kings 8:46“If they sin against you—and who has never sinned?—you might become angry with them and let their enemies conquer them and take them captive to their land far away or near.
- 2 Chronicles 6:36“If they sin against you—and who has never sinned?—you might become angry with them and let their enemies conquer them and take them captive to a foreign land far away or near.
- Psalms 14:3But no, all have turned away; all have become corrupt. No one does good, not a single one!
- Psalms 51:5For I was born a sinner— yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.
- Proverbs 20:9Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart; I am pure and free from sin”?
- Ecclesiastes 7:20Not a single person on earth is always good and never sins.
- John 3:6Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.
- Romans 7:18And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t.
- Galatians 3:22But the Scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, so we receive God’s promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ.
- Ephesians 2:2You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil—the commander of the powers in the unseen world. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God.
- 1 John 1:8If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth.
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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