Job 15:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ What are mortals, that they can be clean? Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? And he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ What is man, that he could be pure and clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he could be right and just?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Common English Bible

¹⁴ What are humans that they might be pure, and those born of woman that they might be innocent?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ What is man that he should be immaculate, and that he should appear just, having been born of woman?

Job 15:14 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is no one on earth so righteous as to do good without ever sinning.

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.

Proverbs 20:9

Who can say, “I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”?

Romans 7:18

For I know that the good does not dwell within me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do the good lies close at hand, but not the ability.

Psalm 14:3

They have all gone astray; they are all alike perverse; there is no one who does good, no, not one.

1 Kings 8:46

“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,

Galatians 3:22

But the scripture has imprisoned all things under the power of sin, so that what was promised through the faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

John 3:6

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

See, this alone I found, that God made human beings straightforward, but they have devised many schemes.

Psalm 51:5

Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.

Job 9:2

“Indeed, I know that this is so, but how can a mortal be just before God?

2 Chronicles 6:36

“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far off or near,

Job 15:13

so that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

Job 14:1

“A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,

Psalm 14:2

The Lord looks down from heaven on humankind to see if there are any who are wise, who seek after God.

Psalm 143:2

Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.