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Job Chapter 15 verse 14 Holy Bible

ASV Job 15:14

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

What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
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DARBY Job 15:14

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

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

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

What is man, that he should be clean? He who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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YLT Job 15:14

What `is' man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - What is man, that he should be clean? A vain "beating of the air." Eliphaz had asserted the same truth in his first speech, when he said, "Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker? Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he taxeth with folly: how much less in them that dwell in houses of clay whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?" (Job 4:17-19); and Job had given his full assent to it, when he exclaimed, "I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand" (Job 9:2, 3). The true question was not whether Job or any other man was" clean," i.e. wholly sinless but whether Job had sinned so deeply and grievously that his sufferings were the natural and just punishment for his sins. And a mere repetition of the statement that all men were sinful and unclean was off the point - nihil ad rem-altogether futile and superfluous. And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? (setup. Job 25:4). The clause is a mere variant of the preceding one.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) What is man?--This is the ceaseless burden.�(See Job 4:17; Job 9:2; Job 25:4, &c.)