Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?

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?

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 their any number to His troops? And on whom ariseth not His light? 4 And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman? 5 Lo -- unto the moon, and it shineth not, And stars have not been pure in His eyes.

Cross References

Job 9:2

Truly I have known that it is so, And what -- is man righteous with God?

Job 4:17-19

'Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

Job 15:14-16

What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

Psalm 130:3

If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

Psalm 143:2

And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.

Job 14:3-4

Also -- on this Thou hast opened Thine eyes, And dost bring me into judgment with Thee.

Psalm 51:5

Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

Zechariah 13:1

In that day there is a fountain opened To the house of David And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For sin and for impurity.

Romans 3:19-20

And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;

Romans 5:1

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Corinthians 6:11

And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Ephesians 2:3

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

1 John 1:9

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,

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