Job 15:14

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:9 : 9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.
  • Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
  • Job 25:4-6 : 4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean? 5 Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight; 6 How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!"
  • Ps 14:3 : 3 They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
  • 2 Chr 6:36 : 36 "If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;
  • Job 9:2 : 2 "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
  • Eccl 7:29 : 29 Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes."
  • John 3:6 : 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
  • Rom 7:18 : 18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.
  • Gal 3:22 : 22 But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
  • Eph 2:2-3 : 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience; 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
  • 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 25:4-6
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    4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

    5 Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

    6 How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!"

  • Job 15:15-16
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    82%

    15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

    16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

  • Job 14:1-5
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    1 "Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

    2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

    3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

    4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

    5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;

  • 17 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

  • 17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

  • 13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • Ps 144:3-4
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    3 Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

    4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

  • 7 "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

  • Job 35:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'

    3 That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

  • 3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

  • 2 "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

  • Job 31:14-15
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    72%

    14 What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

    15 Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb?

  • 72%

    4 what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

  • 9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

  • Job 10:4-6
    3 verses
    71%

    4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

    5 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,

    6 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

  • Job 9:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29 I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

    30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

  • 13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

  • 22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

  • 4 For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.'

  • Job 35:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

    7 If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

  • 20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

  • 2 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

  • 23 Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'

  • 9 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

  • 32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

  • 12 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

  • 2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

  • 13 Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him over the whole world?

  • 3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

  • 20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.

  • 6 For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

  • 23 For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

  • 15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

  • 3 They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.

  • 5 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

  • 12 An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.