Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

What is man that he will be clean? and that he will be just, being born of woman?

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?

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

Fausets

Man

Hastings

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Second Response To Job

13 That thou wilt turn thy spirit against God, and thou broughtest words from thy mouth? 14 What is man that he will be clean? and that he will be just, being born of woman? 15 Behold, in his holy ones he will, not trust; and the heavens were not clean in his eyes.



Cross References

Job 14:4

For who shall give a clean thing from an unclean? Not one.

Proverbs 20:9

Who shall say, I cleansed my heart; I was pure from my sin?

Ecclesiastes 7:20

For not a just man in the earth, who shall do good and not sin.

Job 25:4-6

And how shall man be justified with God? and how shall he born of woman be clean?

Psalm 14:3

All turned away together, they were corrupted: none doing good, not even one.

1 Kings 8:46

For they will sin against thee (for no man which will not sin) and thou wert angry with them and gave them before the enemy, and they carried them away their captives to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

2 Chronicles 6:36

If they shall sin against thee, (for no man which shall not sin) and thou wert angry with them, and gavest them before the face of the enemy, and they taking them captive carried them captive to a land afar off or near;

Job 9:2

I knew that so the truth: and how shall man be just with God?

Psalm 51:5

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

Ecclesiastes 7:29

Only see, this I found, that God made man upright; and they sought out many purposes.

John 3:6

That born of flesh is flesh; and that born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 7:18

For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not.

Galatians 3:22

But the writing shut up all things under sin, that the promise from faith of Jesus Christ might be given to the believing.

Ephesians 2:2-3

In which when ye walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, of the spirit now energetic 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.

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