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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.

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