KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 15:14–16
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Job 15:14
14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
14*What is man, that he should be cleane? and he which is borne of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Chap. 14.4. 1.king. 8.46. 2.chron. 6.36. psal. 14.3. prou. 20.9. 1.iohn 1.8.
Job 15:15
15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
15*Beholde, he putteth no trust in his Saints, yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.
- Iob. 4.18.
Job 15:16
16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
16How much more abominable and filthie is man, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 15:14
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Pure or free from defilement; also wholly or entirely.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Just, right, or conforming to God's law and judgment; equitable or upright; as a noun, a person characterized as righteous.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 15:15
To look upon or see; as an interjection, look or take notice.
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To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Something committed to a person’s care for use or management, and for which an account must be rendered. Confidence; a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another person.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Holy or sanctified persons; persons set apart unto God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Yes; truly; an expression of affirmation or emphasis.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Pure or free from defilement; also wholly or entirely.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The act or power of seeing; something seen; a view, appearance, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Job 15:16
A great quantity or degree; abundant in amount.
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A greater amount, number, or degree; in a greater degree.
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Obtained by base and dishonest means; Polluted; defiled by sinful practices; morally impure; Dirty; foul; unclean; nasty.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Wickedness, unrighteousness, injustice, or a particular sin.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
The common liquid necessary for life; as a verb, to supply with water, irrigate, or cause to drink.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 14
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Open the full verse study20For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
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Open the full verse study4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
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Open the full verse study9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
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Open the full verse study18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
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Open the full verse study4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
5Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
6How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
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Open the full verse study8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
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Open the full verse study46If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
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Open the full verse study3They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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Open the full verse study36If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
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Open the full verse study29Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
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Open the full verse study2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
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Open the full verse study22But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
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Open the full verse study2I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
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Open the full verse study6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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Open the full verse study5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
From verse 15
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Open the full verse study5Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
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Open the full verse study18Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
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Open the full verse study2Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
4And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5¶ Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
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Open the full verse study1CALL now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
From verse 16
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Open the full verse study7What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
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Open the full verse study28An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
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Open the full verse study3Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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Open the full verse study9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17And the way of peace have they not known:
18There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
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Open the full verse study3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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Open the full verse study12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
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Open the full verse study19How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
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Open the full verse study6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
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Open the full verse study1THE fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
2The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
3They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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Open the full verse study28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
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