Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

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!

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 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him? 4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible. 5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

Cross References

John 3:6

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

Job 15:14

What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

Psalm 51:5

Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

Job 25:4-6

How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

Romans 5:12

For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:

Ephesians 2:3

Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

Genesis 5:3

Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth:

Luke 1:35

And the angel in answer said to her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will come to rest on you, and so that which will come to birth will be named holy, Son of God.

Romans 8:8-9

So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.

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