Job 14:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 3:6 : 6 That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
  • Job 25:4-6 : 4 How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman? 5 See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes: 6 How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!
  • Rom 5:12 : 12 For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.
  • Gen 5:3 : 3 Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth:
  • Rom 8:8-9 : 8 So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God. 9 You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.
  • Ps 90:5 : 5 ...
  • Luke 1:35 : 35 And the angel in answer said to her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will come to rest on you, and so that which will come to birth will be named holy, Son of God.

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  • Job 15:13-16
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    13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

    14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

    15 Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;

    16 How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

  • 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • Job 25:4-5
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    4 How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

    5 See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes:

  • 9 Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

  • 3 They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.

  • 17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

  • 3 Every one of them has gone back; they are unclean: there is not one who does good, no, not one.

  • Ps 24:3-4
    2 verses
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    3 Who may go up into the hill of the Lord? and who may come into his holy place?

    4 He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.

  • 12 There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

  • 4 You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.

  • 15 To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.

  • 20 There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

  • 5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

  • 15 That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.

  • 13 Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

  • Rom 3:10-12
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    71%

    10 As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;

    11 Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

    12 They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

  • 6 And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

  • 15 There is nothing outside the man which, going into him, is able to make him unclean: but the things which come out of the man are those which make the man unclean.

  • 3 What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

  • Job 10:6-7
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    71%

    6 That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,

    7 Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

  • 23 Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?

  • 12 Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.

  • 2 Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

  • 36 But at the same time a fountain or a place where water is stored for use will be clean; but anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean.

  • 9 I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

  • 30 If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;

  • 5 Or anyone touching any unclean thing which goes flat on the earth, or someone by whom he may be made unclean in any way whatever;

  • 14 They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

  • 4 To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

  • 14 If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

  • 13 As for your unclean purpose: because I have been attempting to make you clean, but you have not been made clean from it, you will not be made clean till I have let loose my passion on you in full measure.

  • 32 ...

  • 20 And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean.

  • 13 As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

  • 16 Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

  • 7 Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

  • 22 Anything touched by the unclean person will be unclean; and any person touching it will be unclean till evening.

  • 4 Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

  • 3 Or if he becomes unclean through touching unconsciously any unclean thing of man, whatever it may be, when it is made clear to him he will be responsible:

  • 32 This is the law for the man who has the disease of the leper on him, and who is not able to get that which is necessary for making himself clean.

  • 4 No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.