Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Job 25:4 in other translations
| BSB | How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure? |
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| 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? |
| YLT | And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure--born of a woman? |
| DARBY | And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman? |
| BBE | How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman? |
| Webster | How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? |
What does Job 25:4 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Job 25:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 25:4
- Romans 5:1
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
- Psalms 130:3
If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
- Job 9:2
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
- Job 4:17-19
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 charged 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 15:14-16
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
- Psalms 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
- Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
- Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
- 1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- Zechariah 13:1
In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
- Job 14:3-4
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
- Romans 3:19-20
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
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Context
- Job 25:3
Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
- Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
- Job 25:5
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
Job 25:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Cómo pues se justificará el hombre con Dios? ¿y cómo será limpio el que nace de mujer? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et comment l’homme sera-t-il juste devant ✶Dieu, et comment serait pur celui qui est né de femme? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und wie könnte ein Mensch gerecht sein vor Gott, und wie könnte rein sein ein vom Weibe Geborener? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Numquid justificari potest homo comparatus Deo? aut apparere mundus natus de muliere? |