“What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?”
"What is man, that he can be clean? Or he that is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?" Eliphaz returns to universal human depravity. This verse echoes Job's own meditation in chapter 14 on human weakness, but Eliphaz uses it to deny Job's claim to righteousness. If all humans are unclean, then Job cannot validly claim innocence. The verse deploys universalism as a weapon against Job's particularism.
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