This question is asked and answered in the same verse, in Job 14:44Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. (Job 14:4); and in the next chapter we have the further question asked, "What is man, that he should be clean?”
A lesson hard to learn is, our real condition before God. Yet the true state of both the reader and writer is depicted with unerring accuracy in God's Word. It is not a flattering one, but it is exact.
This photograph is found in Rom. 3—none righteous; none that understandeth; none that seeketh after God; none that doeth good; all the world guilty before God. You say that you have not been an openly bad sinner. I ask: Have you loved the Lord your God with all your heart, and soul, and strength and your neighbor as yourself? If honest, you know you must plead "guilty before God.”
This is a serious question. It refers rather to a man's spirit, just as our third question refers more to his body. We are told in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16) that the rich man died and was in torments "hi hell." An awfully solemn thing it is to think of, but it was the Savior Himself who spoke of it, so it must be true. On the other hand, see the repentant thief on the cross! Sinful though he was, he trusted Christ as his Savior. By faith in Jesus he was cleansed from sin; he was made fit for heaven, and his spirit was with Christ in paradise that very day.
Yes, indeed he shall! But where? This is the all-important question. The body may have been laid to rest; it will be raised again. Soul and body will be united, and that for eternity—solemn consideration!
According to Scripture there is no such thing as a "general resurrection." The scriptural order is that true believers in Christ are raised first—long, very long, before the unsaved who die in their sins. When Christ comes all His own will be "caught up" to spend eternity with Him. But, as we read in Rev. 20
"The rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.”
Those who have died unrepentant and unregenerate will remain in their graves until they are raised to stand before the great white throne for judgment. There, condemned, they will be cast into the lake of fire.
Friend, do not put off the question of your soul's salvation! The enemy is so busy trying to get you to put it aside. He says, perhaps, that you are young and strong now; you will have time enough to think about these things when you grow old. He offers you as a bait the allurements and pleasures of this world. This is the voice of Satan! But God says NOW—not tomorrow—now! NOW is the accepted time, and NOW is the day of salvation.