Parallel Verses

Amplified


“Who can make a clean thing out of the unclean?
No 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!

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.

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
“You also open Your eyes upon him
And bring him into judgment with Yourself.
4 
“Who can make a clean thing out of the unclean?
No one!
5
“Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You [in Your control],
And You have made his limits so he cannot pass [his allotted time].


Cross References

John 3:6

That which is born of the flesh is flesh [the physical is merely physical], and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Job 15:14


“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?

Psalm 51:5


I was brought forth in [a state of] wickedness;
In sin my mother conceived me [and from my beginning I, too, was sinful].

Job 25:4-6


“How then can man be justified and righteous with God?
Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean?

Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all people [no one being able to stop it or escape its power], because they all sinned.

Ephesians 2:3

Among these [unbelievers] we all once lived in the passions of our flesh [our behavior governed by the sinful self], indulging the desires of human nature [without the Holy Spirit] and [the impulses] of the [sinful] mind. We were, by nature, children [under the sentence] of [God’s] wrath, just like the rest [of mankind].

Genesis 5:3

When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

Psalm 90:5


You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—

Luke 1:35

Then the angel replied to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you [like a cloud]; for that reason the holy (pure, sinless) Child shall be called the Son of God.

Romans 8:8-9

and those who are in the flesh [living a life that caters to sinful appetites and impulses] cannot please God.

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