Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Who can bring a clean [thing] from an unclean [thing]? No one!
New American Standard Bible
No one!
King James Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Holman Bible
No one!
International Standard Version
Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!
A Conservative Version
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.
Amplified
“Who can make a clean thing out of the unclean?
No one!
Bible in Basic English
If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
Darby Translation
Who can bring a clean man out of the unclean? Not one!
Julia Smith Translation
For who shall give a clean thing from an unclean? Not one.
King James 2000
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? no one.
Modern King James verseion
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Who can make it clean, that cometh from an unclean thing? Nobody.
NET Bible
Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
New Heart English Bible
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
The Emphasized Bible
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one!
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 14:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues To Argue His Case With God
3 Even on such a one you fix your eyes, and you bring me into judgment with you. 4 "Who can bring a clean [thing] from an unclean [thing]? No one! 5 If his days [are] determined, the number of his months [is] with you; you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross [them].
Cross References
John 3:6
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Job 15:14
"What [is] a human being, that he can be clean, or that [one] born of a woman can be righteous?
Psalm 51:5
Behold, in iniquity I was born, and in sin my mother conceived me.
Job 25:4-6
"Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?
Romans 5:12
Because of this, just as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death spread to all people because all sinned.
Ephesians 2:3
among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and we were children of wrath by nature, as also the rest of [them] were.
Genesis 5:3
And when Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he fathered a child in his likeness, according to his image. And he called his name Seth.
Psalm 90:5
You sweep them away [like a flood]. They fall asleep. In the morning [they are] like grass [that] sprouts anew.
Luke 1:35
And the angel answered [and] said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the one to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.
Romans 8:8-9
and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.