Job 15:14
Good News Translation
Can any human being be really pure? Can anyone be right with God?

New Revised Standard Version
What are mortals, that they can be clean? Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?

Contemporary English Version
No human is pure and innocent,

New American Bible
How can any mortal be blameless, anyone born of woman be righteous?

Douay-Rheims Bible
What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?

is man

Job 9:2 Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God.

Job 14:4 Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?

Job 25:4-6 Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean? . . .

1 Kings 8:46 But if they sin against thee, (for there is no man who sinneth not) and thou being angry, deliver them up to their enemies, so that they be led away captives into the land of their enemies, far or near;

2 Chronicles 6:36 And if they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them up to their enemies, and they lead them away captive to a land either afar off, or near at hand,

Psalm 14:3 They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good: no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they acted deceitfully: the poison of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and unhappiness in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

Psalm 51:5 For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

Proverbs 20:9 Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin?

Ecclesiastes 7:20,29 For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not. . . .

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh: and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 7:18 For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will is present with me: but to accomplish that which is good, I find not.

Galatians 3:22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise, by the faith of Jesus Christ, might be given to them that believe.

Ephesians 2:2,3 Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief: . . .

1 John 1:8-10 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. . . .

Context
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
13Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of thy mouth? 14What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?15Behold among his saints none is unchangeable, and the heavens are not pure in his sight.…
Cross References
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

1 John 1:10
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar: and his word is not in us.

2 Chronicles 6:36
And if they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them up to their enemies, and they lead them away captive to a land either afar off, or near at hand,

Job 14:4
Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?

Job 15:13
Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of thy mouth?

Job 25:4
Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?

Psalm 51:5
For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

Proverbs 20:9
Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin?

Ecclesiastes 7:20
For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

Job 15:13
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