Job 14:4
New International Version
Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!

New Living Translation
Who can bring purity out of an impure person? No one!

English Standard Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.

Berean Standard Bible
Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

King James Bible
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

New King James Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

New American Standard Bible
“Who can make the clean out of the unclean? No one!

NASB 1995
“Who can make the clean out of the unclean? No one!

NASB 1977
“Who can make the clean out of the unclean? No one!

Legacy Standard Bible
Who can make the clean out of the unclean? No one!

Amplified Bible
“Who can make a clean thing out of the unclean? No one!

Christian Standard Bible
Who can produce something pure from what is impure? No one!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Who can produce something pure from what is impure? No one!

American Standard Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Who will render the pure from the defiled? Not even one!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;

Contemporary English Version
There's no way a human can be completely pure.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed ? is it not thou who only art?

English Revised Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"If only an unclean person could become clean! It's not possible.

Good News Translation
Nothing clean can ever come from anything as unclean as human beings.

International Standard Version
Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!

JPS Tanakh 1917
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

Literal Standard Version
Who gives a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Majority Standard Bible
Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

New American Bible
Can anyone make the unclean clean? No one can.

NET Bible
Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

New Revised Standard Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.

New Heart English Bible
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Webster's Bible Translation
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

World English Bible
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Young's Literal Translation
Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

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Context
Job Laments the Finality of Death
3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You? 4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one! 5Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,…

Cross References
Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 25:4
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Psalm 51:5
Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, "I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin"?


Treasury of Scripture

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

Who can bring.

Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 25:4-6
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? …

Genesis 5:3
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

a clean

Luke 1:35
And 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.

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Job 14
1. Job entreats God for favor, by the shortness of life, and certainty of death
7. He waits for his change
16. By sin the creature is subject to corruption














(4) Who can bring a clean thing . . .--How can man be clean that is born of woman, who is unclean? This question is reiterated by Bildad (Job 25:4). We ought perhaps, however, rather to render "Oh, that the clean could come forth from the unclean! but none can."

Verse 4. - Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. It is scarcely true to say that "the fact of original sin is thus distinctly recognized" ('Speaker's Commentary,' vol. 4. p. 61). Original uncleanness and infirmity are recognized; but the uncleanness is material, and removable by material expiation (Leviticus 12:2-8). It is rather man's weakness than his sinfulness that is here under discussion.

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Hebrew
Who
מִֽי־ (mî-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

can bring
יִתֵּ֣ן (yit·tên)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

clean
טָ֭הוֹר (ṭā·hō·wr)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2889: Clean, pure

out of unclean?
מִטָּמֵ֗א (miṭ·ṭā·mê)
Preposition-m | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2931: Unclean

No
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

one!
אֶחָֽד׃ (’e·ḥāḏ)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 259: United, one, first


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