Job 14:4 “Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!”

Job 14:4

Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

World English Bible

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

American Standard Version

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

Geneva Bible 1599

Who can bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse? there is not one.

Darby Translation

Who can bring a clean [man] out of the unclean? Not one!

Young's Literal Translation

Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

Bible in Basic English

If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

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Cross references

“Who can bring”

John 3:6 Job 15:14 Ephesians 2:3 Job 25:4–6 Psalm 51:5 Romans 5:12

John 3:6 · BSB

Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.

Job 15:14 · BSB

What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Ephesians 2:3 · BSB

All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

Job 25:4–6 · BSB

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Psalm 51:5 · BSB

Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

Romans 5:12 · BSB

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

“a clean”

Luke 1:35

Luke 1:35 · BSB

The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?

5Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,

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