Parallel Verses
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?
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
Can his forces be numbered? Upon whom does his light not rise?
4
Or how can he be
Names
Cross References
Job 9:2
Truly I know it is so, but how can a man be righteous before God?
Job 4:17-19
Can any mortal be righteous to God? Can any human being be pure to his maker?
Job 15:14-16
What is man, that he could be pure? Or he who is born of woman, that he could be righteous?
Psalm 130:3
If You, Jehovah, should record our sins, O Jehovah, 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 look on such a person? Will you bring him before you for judgment?
Psalm 51:5
Indeed, I was born in perversity (mischief) (evil). I was a sinner when my mother conceived me.
Zechariah 13:1
A fountain for sin and for uncleanness will be opened for the house of David.
Romans 3:19-20
We know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law. Every mouth may be stopped and the entire world may become liable to God for punishment.
Romans 5:1
We are justified (acquitted) (made righteous) by faith. And we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 6:11
That is what some of you were. You have been washed clean and now you are sanctified. The Spirit of our God declares you righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Ephesians 2:3
We all once lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the desires (lusts) of the flesh and of the mind. We were by nature children of anger and violent passion, like everyone else.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, who is the Faithful Witness, and the firstborn from the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and released us from our sins by his blood.