Tree of Life Version
Job 14:4
4Who can make something pure out of the impure? 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
2Like a flower he comes up and withers; like a shadow he flees and does not stay. 3Do You fix Your eyes on such a one, and bring me for judgment with You? Who can make something pure out of the impure? No one! 5Since his days are determined, the number of his months is with You, You have set his limits, which he cannot exceed. 6Look away from him and let him alone, until he fulfills his time like a hired laborer.
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 15:14“What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of woman, that he could be righteous?
- Job 25:4How then can a man be righteous with God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
- Genesis 5:3Adam lived 130 years, then fathered a son in his likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
- Psalms 51:5For I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me.
- Psalms 90:5You sweep them away in their sleep. In the morning they are like sprouting grass—
- 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 came into the world through one man and death through sin, in the same way death spread to all men because all sinned.
- Romans 8:8So those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
- Ephesians 2:3We too all lived among them in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind. By nature we were children of wrath, just like the others.
- Luke 1:35And responding, the angel said to her, “The Ruach ha-Kodesh will come upon you, and the power of Elyon will overshadow you. Therefore, the Holy One being born will be called Ben-Elohim.
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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