Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“What is man, that he should be pure,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

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

What is man, that he should be pure,
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?

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?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
What is man
אנושׁ 
'enowsh 
Usage: 42

that he should be clean
זכה 
Zakah 
Usage: 8

and he which is born
ילד 
Yalad 
Usage: 497

of a woman
נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

References

Easton

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Man

Hastings

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Second Response To Job

13 that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth? 14 “What is man, that he should be pure,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Behold, Godputs no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;

Cross References

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.

Proverbs 20:9

Who can say, "I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin"?

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

Job 25:4-6

How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?

Psalm 14:3

They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.

1 Kings 8:46

"If they sin against you--for there is no one who does not sin--and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,

2 Chronicles 6:36

"If they sin against you--for there is no one who does not sin--and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near,

Job 9:2

"Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.

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 nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.

Galatians 3:22

But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Ephesians 2:2-3

in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience--

1 John 1:8-10

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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