Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

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!

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 And do thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with thee? 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. 5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,

Cross References

John 3:6

That which is begotten from the flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten from the Spirit is spirit.

Job 15:14

What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

Job 25:4-6

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

Romans 5:12

Because of this, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, in that all sinned.

Ephesians 2:3

Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.

Genesis 5:3

And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot [a son] in his own likeness, according to his image, and called his name Seth.

Psalm 90:5

Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up.

Luke 1:35

And having answered, the agent said to her, Holy Spirit will come upon thee, and the power of the Most High will overshadow thee. Therefore also the holy thing that is begotten will be called the Son of God.

Romans 8:8-9

And those who are in flesh cannot please God.

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