Parallel Verses

NET Bible

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

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?

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 Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise? 4 How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure? 5 If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,

Cross References

Job 9:2

"Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

Job 4:17-19

"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

Job 15:14-16

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Psalm 130:3

If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?

Psalm 143:2

Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

Job 14:3-4

Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

Psalm 51:5

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

Zechariah 13:1

"In that day there will be a fountain opened up for the dynasty of David and the people of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

Romans 3:19-20

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

Romans 5:1

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

1 Corinthians 6:11

Some of you once lived this way. 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 all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest

1 John 1:9

But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ -- the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood

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