KJV King James Version
Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not one.
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Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not one.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
WEB World English Bible
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
ASV American Standard Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Surrounding context — Job 14
1 Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.
2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
4 Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not one.
5 Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
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John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.Job 15:14What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?Ephesians 2:3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.Romans 8:8-9So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.Psalm 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.Job 25:4-6How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean [that is] born of a woman?Luke 1:35And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.Romans 5:12Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:Psalm 90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.Genesis 5:3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
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