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Job 14:4 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Job 14:4Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 14:46 words
HebrewMeaning
מִֽיmiy
who?particleH4310
he · him · O that! what · which ···
יִתֵּ֣ןyitēn
will he makeverbH5414
apply · appoint · ascribe · assign ···
טָ֭הוֹרṭāhwōr
a clean thingadjH2889
fair · pure
מִ/טָּמֵ֗אmiṭāmēʾ
from an unclean thingpronH2931
infamous · polluted · unclean
לֹ֣אlōʾ
notparticleH3808
before · or else · except · ig ···
אֶחָֽדʾeḥād
one personadjH259
alike · alone · altogether · and ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 14:4

Who can make clean a thing conceived of unclean seed? Is it not Thou, Who only Art? He That alone is clean in Himself can cleanse the unclean thing. For man, who lives in a corruptible flesh, has the uncleannesses of temptation engrained in him, seeing that he derived them from his birth. For his very conception, for the sake of fleshly gratification, is uncleanness. Hence the Psalmist saith, Behold, I was shapen in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me. Hence…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 11 §69
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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