Parallel Verses

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?

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?

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 thy mind is so puffed up against God and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? 14 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? 15 Behold, he doth not trust his saints; yea, the very heavens are not clean in his sight.

Cross References

Job 14:4

Who can make it clean, that cometh from an unclean thing? Nobody.

Proverbs 20:9

Who can say, "My heart is clean, I am innocent from sin"?

Ecclesiastes 7:20

For there is not one just upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

Job 25:4-6

But how may a man compared unto God be justified? Or, how can he be clean, that is born of a woman?

Psalm 14:3

But they are all gone out of the way, they are all together become abominable: there is none that doeth good, no not one.

1 Kings 8:46

And finally, when they shall have sinned against thee - for there is no man that sinneth not - and thou art angry with them and hast delivered them to their enemies, that they be carried away prisoners unto the land of their enemies, whether far or near;

2 Chronicles 6:36

If they shall sin against thee - as there is no man, but that he shall sin - and thou be angry with them and deliver them to their enemies, and they lead them away captive unto a country far or nigh;

Job 9:2

"I know it is so of a truth: for how may a man, compared unto God, be justified?

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was born in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

Lo, this only have I found, that God made man just and right, but they seek divers subtleties.

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 to say, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing. To will is present with me: but I find no means to perform that which is good.

Galatians 3:22

But the scripture concluded all things under sin, that the promise by the faith of Jesus Christ should be given unto them that believe.

Ephesians 2:2-3

in the which, in time past, ye walked, according to the course of this world, and after the governor that ruleth in the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of unbelief,

1 John 1:8-10

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

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