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Job 15:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

Whatl is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Psa. 14:3• ³They all have turned aside, they have together been corrupted;{HR}There is none doing good, there is not even one. (Psa. 14:3)

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Prov. 20:9• ⁹Who can say, I have cleansed my heart,{HR}I am pure from my sin? (Prov. 20:9)

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Eph. 2:3• ³among whom we all also had our conversation once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were children, by nature, of wrath even as the rest; (Eph. 2:3)

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1 John 1:8,10• ⁸If we say that we have no sin, we mislead ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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)

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is man.

Job 9:2• ²Verily I know that [it is] so,{HR}But how shall mortal man be just, with God? (Job 9:2)

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Job 14:4• ⁴Who giveth a clean out of an unclean thing? Not one! (Job 14:4)

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Job 25:4‑6• ⁴And how is mortal man righteous with God? [El]{HR}And how is he pure, born of a woman?
⁵Behold, to the moon, and it shineth not,{HR}And the stars are not pure in his eyes:
⁶How much less mortal man, a maggot;{HR}And the son of man, a worm! (Job 25:4‑6)

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1 Kings 8:46• ⁴⁶{i}If 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;{/i} (1 Kings 8:46)

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2 Chron. 6:36• ³⁶{i}If 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;{/i} (2 Chron. 6:36)

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Psa. 14:3• ³They all have turned aside, they have together been corrupted;{HR}There is none doing good, there is not even one. (Psa. 14:3)

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Psa. 51:5• ⁵Behold, in iniquity was I born,{HR}And in sin did my mother conceive me. (Psa. 51:5)

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Prov. 20:9• ⁹Who can say, I have cleansed my heart,{HR}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,{HR}That doeth good, and sinneth not.
²⁹Behold, this only have I found,{HR}That God made man upright;{HR}But they have sought out many inventions. (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, no good dwelleth; for to will is present with me, but to work out the right [is] not; (Rom. 7:18)

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Gal. 3:22• ²²But the scripture hath shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might 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 that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
³among whom we all also had our conversation once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, 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 mislead ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to 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

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

JND Translation Notes

Enosh. see Ps. 8.4.

W. Kelly Translation

What [is] man that he should be clean,{HR}And one born of woman that he should be righteous?