Tree of Life Version
Job 15:14
14“What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of woman, that he 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?
- 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 has your heart carried you away and why do your eyes flash, 13so that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth? “What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of woman, that he could be righteous? 15If He puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes, 16how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks 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“Truly I know it is so, but how can one be righteous before God?
- Job 14:4Who can make something pure out of the impure? No one!
- Job 25:4How then can a man be righteous with God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
- 1 Kings 8:46If they sin against You—for there is no man that does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and their captors carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,
- 2 Chronicles 6:36When they sin against You—for there is no man that does not sin —and You become angry with them and hand them over to the enemy who takes them captive to a land far off or near,
- Psalms 14:3They all turned aside, became corrupt. There is no one who does good —not even one.
- Psalms 51:5For I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me.
- Proverbs 20:9Who can say: “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
- Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is not a righteous person on earth who does what is good and doesn’t sin.
- John 3:6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
- Romans 7:18For I know that nothing good dwells in me—that is, in my flesh. For to will is present in me, but to do the good is not.
- Galatians 3:22But the Scripture has locked up the whole world under sin, so that the promise based on trust in Messiah Yeshua might be given to those who trust.
- Ephesians 2:2At that time, you walked in the way of this world, in conformity to the ruler of the domain of the air—the ruler of the spirit who is now operating in the sons of disobedience.
- 1 John 1:8If we say we have no sin, we are deceiving 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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