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14 What is man, that he should be clean?
    What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones.
    Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
    a man who drinks iniquity like water!

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14 “What is mankind, that he can be blameless?
    Or does being born of a woman mean he’ll be in the right?
15 Look, if God[a] doesn’t trust his holy ones,[b]
    if even the heavens aren’t pure as he looks at them,
16 then how much less is one who is abhorred and corrupted,
    such as a man who drinks injustice like water?”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 15:15 Lit. he
  2. Job 15:15 Cf. Job 4:18