Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
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?
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?
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 Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise? 4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean? 5 Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;
Names
Cross References
Job 9:2
"Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
Job 4:17-19
'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 15:14-16
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Psalm 130:3
If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
Psalm 143:2
Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
Job 14:3-4
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. In sin my mother conceived me.
Zechariah 13:1
"In that day there will be a spring opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
Romans 3:19-20
Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
Romans 5:1
Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
1 Corinthians 6:11
Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
Ephesians 2:3
among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the 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 the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and freed us from our sins by his blood;