Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure? New Living Translation How can a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone born of a woman be pure? English Standard Version How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure? Berean Study Bible How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure? King James Bible How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? New King James Version How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he be pure who is born of a woman? New American Standard Bible “How then can mankind be righteous with God? Or how can anyone who is born of woman be pure? NASB 1995 "How then can a man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of woman? NASB 1977 “How then can a man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of woman? Amplified Bible “How then can man be justified and righteous with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean? Christian Standard Bible How can a human be justified before God? How can one born of woman be pure? Holman Christian Standard Bible How can a person be justified before God? How can one born of woman be pure? American Standard Version How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? Brenton Septuagint Translation For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself? Contemporary English Version How can anyone be innocent in the sight of God? Douay-Rheims Bible Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean? English Revised Version How then can man be just with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? Good News Translation Can anyone be righteous or pure in God's sight? GOD'S WORD® Translation How can a person be righteous to God? How can anyone born of a woman be pure? International Standard Version How can a human being become right with God? How can a human being be pure? JPS Tanakh 1917 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? Literal Standard Version And what? Is man righteous with God? And what? Is he pure—born of a woman? NET Bible How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure? New Heart English Bible How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean? World English Bible How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean? Young's Literal Translation And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman? Additional Translations ... Study Bible Bildad: Man Cannot Be Righteous…3Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise? 4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure? 5If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,… Cross References Job 4:17 Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker? Job 9:2 "Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God? Job 14:4 Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one! Job 15:14 What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous? Psalm 143:2 Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You. Treasury of Scripture How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? How then Job 4:17-19 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? … Job 9:2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? Job 15:14-16 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? … how can Job 14:3,4 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? … Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Zechariah 13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. Verse 4. - How then can man be justified with God? If God's creatures have no brightness of their own, and, when they shine, shine only with a reflected radiance, then certainly can no man be justified by his own merits. "All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman! (comp. Job 14:4, "Who shall bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one;" and the comment ad loc.). Parallel Commentaries ... Lexicon Howוּמַה־ (ū·mah-) Conjunctive waw | Interrogative Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what then can a man אֱנ֣וֹשׁ (’ĕ·nō·wōš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 582: Man, mankind be just יִּצְדַּ֣ק (yiṣ·daq) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 6663: To be just or righteous before עִם־ (‘im-) Preposition Strong's Hebrew 5973: With, equally with God? אֵ֑ל (’êl) Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty How וּמַה־ (ū·mah-) Conjunctive waw | Interrogative Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what can one born יְל֣וּד (yə·lūḏ) Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage of woman אִשָּֽׁה׃ (’iš·šāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female be pure? יִּ֝זְכֶּ֗ה (yiz·keh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 2135: To be translucent, to be innocent Jump to Previous Born Clean Justified Possible Pure Righteous UprightJump to Next Born Clean Justified Possible Pure Righteous UprightLinks Job 25:4 NIVJob 25:4 NLT Job 25:4 ESV Job 25:4 NASB Job 25:4 KJV Job 25:4 BibleApps.com Job 25:4 Biblia Paralela Job 25:4 Chinese Bible Job 25:4 French Bible Job 25:4 Clyx Quotations OT Poetry: Job 25:4 How then can man be just (Jb) |
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