Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?
New American Standard Bible
Or how can he be
King James Version
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Holman Bible
How can one born of woman be pure?
International Standard Version
How can a human being become right with God? How can a human being be pure?
A Conservative Version
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
American Standard Version
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Amplified
“How then can man be justified and righteous with God?
Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean?
Darby Translation
And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?
Julia Smith Translation
And how shall man be justified with God? and how shall he born of woman be clean?
King James 2000
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?
Modern King James verseion
How then can man be justified with God? Or how can one who is born of a woman be clean?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But how may a man compared unto God be justified? Or, how can he be clean, that is born of a woman?
NET Bible
How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
New Heart English Bible
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
The Emphasized Bible
How then shall, a mortal, be just with GOD? Or how shall he be pure who is born of a woman?
Webster
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
World English Bible
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
Youngs Literal Translation
And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?
Themes
Fall of man » Man in consequence of » Born in sin
Justification » Of self, impossible
Justification before God » Under the law » Man cannot attain to
Topics
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 25:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Bildad's Third Speech
3 Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining? 4 How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman? 5 See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes:
Names
Cross References
Job 9:2
Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?
Job 4:17-19
May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?
Job 15:14-16
What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
Job 14:3-4
Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?
Psalm 51:5
Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
Zechariah 13:1
In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean.
Romans 3:19-20
Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:
Romans 5:1
For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
1 Corinthians 6:11
And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
Ephesians 2:3
Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.
1 John 1:9
If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.
Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;