Parallel Verses
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?
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?
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?
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
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 25:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Bildad's Third Speech
3 whose men of war are innumerable, and whose light ariseth over all. 4 But how may a man compared unto God be justified? Or, how can he be clean, that is born of a woman? 5 Behold, the Moon shineth nothing in comparison to him, and the stars are unclean in his sight.
Names
Cross References
Job 9:2
"I know it is so of a truth: for how may a man, compared unto God, be justified?
Job 4:17-19
'Shall man be more just than God? Or shall man be purer than his maker?
Job 15:14-16
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?
Psalm 130:3
If thou, LORD wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss, O LORD who may abide it?
Psalm 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Job 14:3-4
Doest thou open thine eyes upon such one, and bringest me in thy judgment?
Psalm 51:5
Behold, I was born in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me.
Zechariah 13:1
In that time shall the house of David and the citizens of Jerusalem have an open well, to wash of sin and uncleanness.
Romans 3:19-20
Yea and we know that whatsoever the law saith, he saith it to them which are under the law: That all mouths may be stopped, and all the world be subdued to God,
Romans 5:1
Because therefore that we are justified by faith we are at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
1 Corinthians 6:11
And such were ye verily: but ye are washed, ye are sanctified, ye are justified by the name of the Lord Jesus: And by the spirit of our God.
Ephesians 2:3
among which we also had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of our flesh, and fulfilled the will of the flesh, and of the mind: and were naturally the children of wrath, even as well as others.
1 John 1:9
If we knowledge 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 which is a faithful witness, and first begotten of the dead: and Lord over the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood,