\{Job said,\} “We are all human beings. {\cf2\super [24]} Our life is short and full of trouble.
Job 25:4 - Easy To Read Version Compared to God, no person is good.\par No human being {\cf2\super [45]} can really be pure.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 How then can man be justified with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition How then can man be justified and righteous before God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean? [Ps. 130:3; 143:2.] American Standard Version (1901) How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? Common English Bible How can a person be innocent before God; one born of a woman be pure? Catholic Public Domain Version Is it right for man to compare himself to God, or to appear pure though he is born of woman? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Can man be justified compared with God; or he that is born of a woman appear clean? |
\{Job said,\} “We are all human beings. {\cf2\super [24]} Our life is short and full of trouble.
“Yes, I know what you say is true.\par But how can a man win an argument with God?\par
Lord, if you really punished people\par for all of their sins,\par no person would be left alive.\par
Don’t judge me, your servant.\par Never, in all my life, could I ever be judged innocent.\par
But at that time, a new spring of water will be opened for David’s family and for the other people living in Jerusalem. That fountain will be to wash away their sins and to make the people pure.
We have been made right with God because of our faith. So we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
In the past, some of you were like that. But you were washed clean, you were made holy, {\cf2\super [36]} and you were made right with God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
In the past, all of us lived like those people. We lived trying to please our sinful selves. We did all the things our bodies and minds wanted. We were \{evil\} people. We should have suffered God’s anger because of the way we were. We were the same as all other people.
But if we confess (admit) our sins, then God will forgive our sins. We can trust God to do this. God does what is right. God will make us clean from all the wrong things we have done.
and from Jesus Christ. Jesus is the faithful witness. He was first among those to be raised from death. Jesus is the ruler of the kings of the earth.