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14 “What is a human being, that he can be clean,
or[a] that one born of a woman can be righteous?
15 Look, he does not trust his holy ones,
and the heavens are not clean in his eyes.
16 How much less[b] he who is abominable and corrupt,[c]
a man drinking wickedness like water.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 15:14 Or “and”
  2. Job 15:16 Literally “Also for,” or “Indeed for,” or “Indeed that”
  3. Job 15:16 Or “he who is corrupt”

14 Can any mortal be pure?
    Can anyone born of a woman be just?
15 Look, God does not even trust the angels.[a]
    Even the heavens are not absolutely pure in his sight.
16 How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person
    with a thirst for wickedness!

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  1. 15:15 Hebrew the holy ones.