Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“How then can a man be just with God?
Or how can he be clean who is born of woman?

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 a person be justified before God?
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?

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?

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?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אנושׁ 
'enowsh 
Usage: 42

with God
אל 
'el 
Usage: 114

or how can he be clean
זכה 
Zakah 
Usage: 8

that is born
ילד 
Yalad 
Usage: 497

References

Context Readings

Bildad's Third Speech

3 Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise? 4 “How then can a man be just with God?
Or how can he be clean who is born of woman?
5 Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes;

Cross References

Job 9:2

"Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?

Job 4:17-19

'Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Job 15:14-16

What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

Psalm 130:3

If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

Psalm 143:2

Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.

Job 14:3-4

And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

Psalm 51:5

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

Zechariah 13:1

"On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.

Romans 3:19-20

Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

Romans 5:1

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Ephesians 2:3

among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood

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