none can pardon sin but God, or justify a sinner besides him; and he can do both in a way of justice, upon the foot of the blood and righteousness of Christ.

The common lot of every man, who descended from sinful parents, and, being infected with original corruption, must unavoidably be unclean.

It implicitly calls for divine mercy and underscores the belief that true cleansing from sin is beyond human capacity; it necessitates the grace of God.

The text refers to man's original and corrupt nature. Every man that is born into the world comes into it in a corrupt or sinful state. This is called original ...

(Job 14:4) Nothing clean can ever come from anything as unclean as human beings.(GNB). Job is simply admitting that of ourselves we can do nothing good. Our ...

Job 14:4 (KJV) is a powerful verse that speaks to the universal struggle to find purity and goodness in the midst of impurity and suffering.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?: Who can bring is literally “Who can give,” which is an idiom used a number of times in Job.

David Guzik commentary on Job 14, where Job meditates on what lies beyond this life, and even considers the idea that man may not live after death.

Who can bring a clean thing - This verse is thus rendered by the Chaldee: "Who will produce a clean thing from man, who is polluted with sins, except God, ...

Chapter 14. Job had turned from speaking to his friends, finding it to no purpose to reason with them, and here he goes on to speak to God and himself.