Job 15:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:9 : 9 Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
  • Job 14:4 : 4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
  • 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!
  • Ps 14:3 : 3 They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;
  • 2 Chr 6:36 : 36 If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them, and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away prisoners to a land far off or near;
  • Job 9:2 : 2 Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?
  • Eccl 7:29 : 29 This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.
  • John 3:6 : 6 That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.
  • Rom 7:18 : 18 For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.
  • Gal 3:22 : 22 However, the holy Writings have put all things under sin, so that that for which God gave the undertaking, based on faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who have such faith.
  • Eph 2:2-3 : 2 In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God; 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.
  • 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us. 9 If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil. 10 If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.

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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:

    6 How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!

  • Job 15:15-16
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    15 Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;

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  • Job 14:1-5
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    1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

    2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

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

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

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    17 What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

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  • Ps 144:3-4
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    3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?

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    7 Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

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    3 Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

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    2 Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

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    4 What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?

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

  • Job 10:4-6
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    4 Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees?

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  • Job 9:29-30
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    29 You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?

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  • Hab 1:13
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    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?

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

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    6 If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

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    20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

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

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

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    32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

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

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    13 Who put the earth into his care, or made him responsible for the world?

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    3 Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?

  • Eccl 7:20
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    20 There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

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    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.

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    23 For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.

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    15 All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

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

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    5 But if a man is upright, living rightly and doing righteousness,

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