Job 25:4

In 11 translations

BSB

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

KJV

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

WEB

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

ASV

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

LSV

And what? Is man righteous with God? And what? Is he pure—born of a woman?

YLT

And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure — born of a woman?

DBY

And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?El

DRC

Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?

GNV

And howe may a man be iustified with God? or how can he be cleane, that is borne of woman?

JPS

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

LXXE

For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?

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WLC

וּמַה־יִּצְדַּ֣ק אֱנ֣וֹשׁ עִם־אֵ֑ל וּמַה־יִּ֝זְכֶּ֗ה יְל֣וּד אִשָּֽׁה׃

LXX-Br

Πῶς γὰρ ἔσται δίκαιος βροτὸς ἔναντι Κυρίου; ἢ τίς ἂν ἀποκαθαρίσαι αὐτὸν γεννητὸς γυναικός;

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• Romans 5:1Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
• Psalms 130:3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
• Job 4:17–19‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker? If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error, how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose…
• Job 9:2“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous? If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes, how much less man, who is vile and corrupt,…
• Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
• Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
• Psalms 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
• Job 14:3–4Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You? Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
• Zechariah 13:1“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
• 1 John 1:9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• Romans 3:19–20Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works…
• Ephesians 2:3All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
• 1 Corinthians 6:11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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