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Job 15

Job 15:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Whatl is man
'enowsh (Hebrew #582)
properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified 120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
KJV usage: another, X (blood-)thirsty, certain, chap(-man); divers, fellow, X in the flower of their age, husband, (certain, mortal) man, people, person, servant, some ( X of them), + stranger, those, + their trade. It is often unexpressed in the English versions, especially when used in apposition with another word . Compare 376.
Pronounce: en-oshe'
Origin: from 605
, that he should be clean
zakah (Hebrew #2135)
to be translucent; figuratively, to be innocent
KJV usage: be (make) clean, cleanse, be clear, count pure.
Pronounce: zaw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2141)
? and he which is born
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
of a woman
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
, that he should be righteous
tsadaq (Hebrew #6663)
to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)
KJV usage: cleanse, clear self, (be, do) just(-ice, -ify, -ify self), (be turn to) righteous(-ness).
Pronounce: tsaw-dak'
Origin: a primitive root
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is man.
Job 9:2• 2Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with *God? (Job 9:2)
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Job 14:4• 4Who can bring a clean man out of the unclean? Not one! (Job 14:4)
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Job 25:4‑6• 4And how should man be just with *God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?
5Lo, even the moon is not bright; and the stars are not pure in his sight:
6How much less man, a worm, and the son of man, a worm!
(Job 25:4‑6)
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1 Kings 8:46• 46If they have sinned against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and give them up to the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto the enemy's land, far or near; (1 Kings 8:46)
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2 Chron. 6:36• 36If they have sinned against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not), and thou be angry with them, and give them up to the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto a land far off or near; (2 Chron. 6:36)
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Psa. 14:3• 3They have all gone aside, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one. (Psa. 14:3)
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Psa. 51:5• 5Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, and in sin did my mother conceive me. (Psa. 51:5)
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Prov. 20:9• 9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? (Prov. 20:9)
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Eccl. 7:20,29• 20Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.
29Only see this which I have found: that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.
(Eccl. 7:20,29)
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John 3:6• 6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6)
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Rom. 7:18• 18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not. (Rom. 7:18)
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Gal. 3:22• 22but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should be given to those that believe. (Gal. 3:22)
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Eph. 2:2‑3• 2in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:
3among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:
(Eph. 2:2‑3)
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1 John 1:8‑10• 8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
(1 John 1:8‑10)
 The holiness of God (vers. 14-16). (Job 3-31 by S. Ridout)
 Eliphaz repeats the statement of his first address as to the holiness of God (chap. 4:17-19). (Job 3-31 by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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What is manb, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

JND Translation Notes

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b
Enosh. see Ps. 8.4.