Job 14:4
Good News Translation
Nothing clean can ever come from anything as unclean as human beings.

New Revised Standard Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.

Contemporary English Version
There's no way a human can be completely pure.

New American Bible
Can anyone make the unclean clean? No one can.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Who can bring.

Job 15:14 What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?

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

Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son to his own image and likeness, and called his name Seth.

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

Psalm 90:5 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

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

Romans 5:12 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin death: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.

Romans 8:8,9 And they who are in the flesh cannot please God. . . .

Ephesians 2:3 In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:

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Luke 1:35 And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

Context
Job Laments the Finality of Death
3And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee? 4Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?5The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.…
Cross References
Job 15:14
What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?

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?

Job 14:3
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