Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Who can make the clean out of the unclean?
No one!

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Who can produce something pure from what is impure?
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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Who can bring a clean [thing] from an unclean [thing]? 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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

a clean
טהר טהור 
Tahowr 
Usage: 95

thing out of an unclean
טמא 
Tame' 
Usage: 88

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Job Continues To Argue His Case With God

3 Do you look on such a person? Will you bring him before you for judgment? 4 Who can make the clean out of the unclean?
No one!
5 Man's days are determined. You have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.


Cross References

John 3:6

That which is born from the flesh is flesh and that which is born from the Spirit is spirit.

Job 15:14

What is man, that he could be pure? Or he who is born of woman, that he could be righteous?

Psalm 51:5

Indeed, I was born in perversity (mischief) (evil). I was a sinner when my mother conceived me.

Job 25:4-6

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

Romans 5:12

Therefore, through one-man sin entered into the world, and death through sin. So death passed to all men, for all have sinned.

Ephesians 2:3

We all once lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the desires (lusts) of the flesh and of the mind. We were by nature children of anger and violent passion, like everyone else.

Genesis 5:3

When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

Psalm 90:5

You sweep mortals away in the sleep of death. They sprout again in the morning like grass.

Luke 1:35

The angel replied: Holy Spirit would come to you and the power of the Most High will envelope you. Because of this the newborn will be called the Son of God.

Romans 8:8-9

Those influenced by the sinful flesh cannot please God.

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