14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
For I know that in me(that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)Eliphaz here falls very foul upon Job, because he contradicted what he and his colleagues had said, and did not acquiesce in it and applaud it, as they expected. Proud people are apt thus to take it very much amiss if they may not have leave to dictate and give law to all about them, and to censure those as ignorant and obstinate, and all that is naught, who cannot in every thing say as they say.…
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