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Job 14:4
If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
Job 14:4 · Bible in Basic English
Job 14:4 in other translations
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
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In context
1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?
4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;
6 Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.
7 For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.
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