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Job 14:4

NETBible	Who can make¹ a clean thing come from an unclean?² No one!
NIV © biblegateway Job 14:4	Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No-one!
NASB © biblegateway Job 14:4	"Who can make the clean out of the unclean? No one!
NLT © biblegateway Job 14:4	Who can create purity in one born impure? No one!
MSG © biblegateway Job 14:4	There's nothing much to us to start with; how do you expect us to amount to anything?
BBE © SABDAweb Job 14:4	If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
NRSV © bibleoremus Job 14:4	Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.
NKJV © biblegateway Job 14:4	Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!
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KJV	Who can bring <05414> (8799) a clean <02889> [thing] out of an unclean <02931>_? not one <0259>_. {can...: Heb. will give}
NASB © biblegateway Job 14:4	"Who <04310> can make <05414> the clean <02889> out of the unclean <02931> ? No <03808> one <0259> !
LXXM	tiv <5100> I-NSM gar <1063> PRT kayarov <2513> A-NSM estai <1510> V-FMI-3S apo <575> PREP rupou {N-GSM} all <235> CONJ ouyeiv <3762> A-NSF
NET [draft] ITL	Who <04310> can make <05414> a clean <02889> thing come from an unclean <02931> ? No <03808> one <0259> !
HEBREW	dxa <0259> al <03808> amjm <02931> rwhj <02889> Nty <05414> ym (14:4) <04310>

NETBible

Who can make¹ a clean thing come from an unclean?² No one!

NET Notes

¹tn The expression is מִי־יִתֵּן (mi-yitten, “who will give”; see GKC 477 §151.b). Some commentators (H. H. Rowley and A. B. Davidson) wish to take this as the optative formula: “O that a clean might come out of an unclean!” But that does not fit the verse very well, and still requires the addition of a verb. The exclamation here simply implies something impossible – man is unable to attain purity.

²sn The point being made is that the entire human race is contaminated by sin, and therefore cannot produce something pure. In this context, since man is born of woman, it is saying that the woman and the man who is brought forth from her are impure. See Ps 51:5; Isa 6:5; and Gen 6:5.