Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Who can make a clean thing out of the unclean?
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.
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
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 14:4
Verse Info
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.
“Who can make a clean thing out of the unclean?
No one!
“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
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
Genesis 5:3
When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he
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.