Job 25:4 “How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pu…”

Job 25:4

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

World English Bible

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

American Standard Version

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Geneva Bible 1599

And howe may a man be iustified with God? or how can he be cleane, that is borne of woman?

Darby Translation

And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?

Young's Literal Translation

And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure — born of a woman?

Bible in Basic English

How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

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Cross references

“How then”

Romans 5:1 Psalm 130:3 Job 4:17–19 Job 9:2 Job 15:14–16 Psalm 143:2

Romans 5:1 · BSB

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Psalm 130:3 · BSB

If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

Job 4:17–19 · BSB

‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

Job 9:2 · BSB

“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

Job 15:14–16 · BSB

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

Psalm 143:2 · BSB

Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

“how can”

Psalm 51:5 Revelation 1:5 Zechariah 13:1 1 John 1:9 Ephesians 2:3 1 Corinthians 6:11

Psalm 51:5 · BSB

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

Revelation 1:5 · BSB

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,

Zechariah 13:1 · BSB

“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

1 John 1:9 · BSB

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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.

1 Corinthians 6:11 · BSB

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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

In context

3Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?

5If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,

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