Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"What [is] a human being, that he can be clean, or that [one] born of a woman can be righteous?
New American Standard Bible
Or
King James Version
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Holman Bible
or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
International Standard Version
"What is mankind, that he can be blameless? Or does being born of a woman mean he'll be in the right?
A Conservative Version
What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
American Standard Version
What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Amplified
“What is man, that he should be pure and clean,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous and just?
Bible in Basic English
What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
Darby Translation
What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Julia Smith Translation
What is man that he will be clean? and that he will be just, being born of woman?
King James 2000
What is man, that he should be clean? and he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Modern King James verseion
What is man, that he should be clean? And what is he born of a woman that he should be righteous?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
What is man, that he should be clean? What hath he, which is born of a woman, whereby he might be known to be righteous?
NET Bible
What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
New Heart English Bible
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
The Emphasized Bible
What is a mortal, that he should be pure? or that righteous should be one born of a woman?
Webster
What is man, that he should be clean? and he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
World English Bible
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Youngs Literal Translation
What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 15:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Second Response To Job
13 that you turn your spirit against God, and you let [such] words go out of your mouth? 14 "What [is] a human being, that he can be clean, or that [one] born of a woman can be righteous? 15 Look, he does not trust his holy ones, and [the] heavens are not clean in his eyes.
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Cross References
Job 14:4
"Who can bring a clean [thing] from an unclean [thing]? No one!
Proverbs 20:9
Who will say "I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is no one righteous on the earth who [continually] does good and never sins.
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?
Psalm 14:3
All have gone astray; they are altogether corrupt. There is not one who does good; there is not even one.
1 Kings 8:46
"If they sin against you (for there is not a person who does not sin) and you are angry with them and you give them to an enemy and they take them captive to the land of the enemy far or near,
2 Chronicles 6:36
When they sin against you--for there is no person who does not sin--and you become angry with them and place them before their enemy that they carry them away as captives to a land far or near,
Job 9:2
"Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being be just before God?
Psalm 51:5
Behold, in iniquity I was born, and in sin my mother conceived me.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Look! This alone I found: God made mankind upright, but they have devised many schemes."
John 3:6
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 7:18
For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing [of] the good [is] not.
Galatians 3:22
But the scripture imprisoned all under sin, in order that the promise could be given by faith in Jesus Christ to those who believe.
Ephesians 2:2-3
in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience,
1 John 1:8-10
If we say that we do not have sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.