Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
What is a mortal, that he should be pure? or that righteous should be one born of a woman?
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?
Darby Translation
What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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?
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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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 15:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Second Response To Job
13 For thy spirit, replieth against GOD, and thou bringest forth - out of thy mouth - words! 14 What is a mortal, that he should be pure? or that righteous should be one born of a woman? 15 Lo! in his holy ones, he putteth not confidence, and, the heavens, are not pure in his eyes:
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Cross References
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one!
Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin?
Ecclesiastes 7:20
For, as for men, there is none righteous in the earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Job 25:4-6
How then shall, a mortal, be just with GOD? Or how shall he be pure who is born of a woman?
Psalm 14:3
The whole, have turned aside, Together have they become tainted, - There is none that doeth good, not so much as, one!
1 Kings 8:46
When they sin against thee - for there is, no son of earth, that sinneth not, and thou shalt be angry with them, and deliver them up before an enemy, - who shall carry them away as their captives, into the land of the enemy, far or near;
2 Chronicles 6:36
When they sin against thee - for there is no son of earth who sinneth not - and thou shalt be angry with them, and deliver them up before an enemy, - who shall carry them away as their captives into a land - far away or near;
Job 9:2
Of a truth, I know that so it is, But how can a mortal be just with GOD?
Psalm 51:5
Lo! in iniquity, was I brought forth, And, in sin, did my mother conceive me.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Only, see, this, have I found, That God made man upright, but, they, have sought out many devices.
John 3:6
That which hath been born of the flesh, is, flesh, and, that which hath been born of the spirit, is, spirit.
Romans 7:18
I know, in fact, that there dwelleth not in me, that is, in my flesh, anything good; for, the wishing, lieth near me, but, the working out of what is right, not!
Galatians 3:22
But the Scripture, did shut up, all things, under sin, that, the promise by faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to them who have faith,
Ephesians 2:2-3
In which at one time ye walked, according to the age of the world, according to the prince of the authority of the air, of the spirit that now energiseth in the sons of disobedience,
1 John 1:8-10
If we say - Sin, have we none! we are deceiving, ourselves, and, the truth, is not in us.