Parallel Verses

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?

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 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 you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth? 14 What is man, that he should be clean? And what is he born of a woman that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, He puts no trust in His saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.

Cross References

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

Proverbs 20:9

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

Ecclesiastes 7:20

For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.

Job 25:4-6

How then can man be justified with God? Or how can one who is born of a woman be clean?

Psalm 14:3

All have gone aside, together they are filthy; there is none who does good, no, not one.

1 Kings 8:46

If they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin), and if You are angry with them, and have delivered them up before the enemy, and they have been led away captive to the land of the enemy, far or near,

2 Chronicles 6:36

If they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin), and if You are angry with them and deliver them up before their enemies, and they carry them away captives to a land far off or near,

Job 9:2

Truly I know it is so, but how can man be just with God?

Psalm 51:5

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

Ecclesiastes 7:29

Lo, this only I have found, that God has made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions.

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) dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I do not find.

Galatians 3:22

But the Scripture shut up all under sin, so that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Ephesians 2:2-3

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children 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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