Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of 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?
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?
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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 thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth: 14 What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman? 15 Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.
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Cross References
Job 14:4
Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Proverbs 20:9
Who saith, 'I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.
Job 25:4-6
And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?
Psalm 14:3
The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.
1 Kings 8:46
'When they sin against Thee (for there is not a man who sinneth not), and Thou hast been angry with them, and hast given them up before an enemy, and they have taken captive their captivity unto the land of the enemy far off or near;
2 Chronicles 6:36
When they sin against Thee -- for there is not a man who sinneth not -- and Thou hast been angry with them, and hast given them before an enemy, and taken them captive have their captors, unto a land far off or near;
Job 9:2
Truly I have known that it is so, And what -- is man righteous with God?
Psalm 51:5
Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they -- 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
for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,
Galatians 3:22
but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.
Ephesians 2:2-3
in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,
1 John 1:8-10
if we may say -- 'we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;