Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should 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?
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?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"What [is] a human being, that he can be clean, or that [one] born of a woman can 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 thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest words go out of thy mouth? 14 What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:
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Cross References
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean man out of the unclean? Not one!
Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.
Job 25:4-6
And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?
Psalm 14:3
They have all gone aside, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one.
1 Kings 8:46
If they have sinned against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and give them up to the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto the enemy's land, far or near;
2 Chronicles 6:36
If they have sinned against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not), and thou be angry with them, and give them up to the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto a land far off or near;
Job 9:2
Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with God?
Psalm 51:5
Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Only see this which I have found: that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.
John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 7:18
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not.
Galatians 3:22
but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should be given to those that believe.
Ephesians 2:2-3
in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:
1 John 1:8-10
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.