Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

Cross-references

Job 15:14 Parallel

Job 15:14 asks how a man born of woman can be pure, restating the same impossibility of clean from unclean.

Job 25:4-6 expands on human impurity, even contrasting with celestial bodies, reinforcing the point that no one is clean.

Job 4:17 Parallel

In Job 4:17, Eliphaz asks if a mortal can be more pure than God—reinforcing the same truth that humans are inherently impure.

Job 9:2 Parallel

In Job 9:2, Job asks how a mortal can be righteous before God—the same dilemma: no one can be pure from impurity.

Job 11:4 Contrast

In Job 11:4, Zophar quotes Job's claim to be pure—contrasting with Job 14:4's truth that no one can be pure from the impure.

Psalm 51:5 Parallel

Psalm 51:5 confesses being sinful from conception, directly affirming the principle that nothing clean comes from unclean.

John 3:6 Contrast

John 3:6 contrasts flesh (unclean) and Spirit (clean), providing the answer to Job's question: only spiritual rebirth makes clean.

Luke 1:35 Contrast

Luke 1:35 presents a miraculous exception: Jesus is conceived by the Holy Spirit, holy and clean, challenging Job's 'no one'.

Romans 5:12 Parallel

Romans 5:12 traces universal uncleanness to Adam's sin, grounding Job's observation in humanity's fallen state.

Romans 8:8 Parallel

Romans 8:8 confirms that those in the flesh cannot please God, reinforcing Job's point that nothing clean comes from the unclean.

Romans 8:9 Contrast

Romans 8:9 offers the solution: the Spirit makes believers not in the flesh, answering how clean can come from unclean.

Ephesians 2:3 describes humanity's natural state as children of wrath, aligning with Job's claim that we are inherently unclean.

Isaiah 64:6 Parallel

In Isaiah 64:6, 'All our righteous acts are like filthy rags'—a vivid parallel to Job's truth that humans cannot produce anything pure.

Romans 7:18 Parallel

Romans 7:18 confesses 'no good thing' dwells in the flesh — confirming Job's point that only unclean comes from unclean human nature.

1 Corinthians 15:48 contrasts the earthy (Adam) with the heavenly (Christ) — the solution to Job's dilemma: a new, clean origin from heaven.

Romans 3:10 Parallel

Romans 3:10 declares 'none righteous, no, not one' — directly reinforcing Job's claim that no clean can come from unclean.

John 9:34 Parallel

John 9:34 says the blind man was 'born entirely in sins' — directly illustrating Job's point that no clean can come from an unclean birth.

1 John 1:8 Parallel

1 John 1:8 affirms that everyone has sin—the same universal impurity Job laments, 'Who can bring clean from unclean?'

Mark 7:21 Parallel

Mark 7:21 explains that uncleanness comes from within the heart — supporting Job's claim that no clean can come from unclean humanity.

Matthew 1:18 presents Jesus' conception by the Holy Spirit — the one exception to Job's claim that no clean can come from unclean.

In Proverbs 22:15, 'Folly is bound up in the heart of a child'—showing innate impurity, just as Job says no pure can come from impure.

In Proverbs 20:9, the rhetorical question 'Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure”?' affirms Job's point that only God can bring purity.

Psalm 53:1 Parallel

In Psalm 53:1, the same refrain 'there is no one who does good' reinforces Job's assertion that no one can produce purity from impurity.

Psalm 14:3 Parallel

In Psalm 14:3, the psalmist declares 'there is no one who does good'—a universal statement matching Job's point about human impurity.

In 1 Kings 8:46, Solomon acknowledges 'there is no one who does not sin'—a direct parallel to Job's statement that no pure can come from impure.

Genesis 8:21 states man's heart is evil from youth, confirming Job's principle that nothing clean originates from the unclean.

Genesis 5:3 Allusion

Genesis 5:3 shows Adam fathering a son in his own fallen likeness, providing the scriptural basis for inherited uncleanness implied in 14:4.