KJV ORIGINAL
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
How can any person be considered righteous before God? How can anyone born from a woman be considered pure?
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse questions how any human being could ever be considered righteous or pure enough to stand before God.
📚 Historical Context
This is part of Bildad's final speech to Job, where he emphasizes God's absolute holiness and majesty compared to human frailty. Bildad is one of Job's three friends who came to comfort him during his suffering, but instead ended up arguing that Job's troubles must be due to sin. In ancient times, being 'born of a woman' was a common expression emphasizing human mortality and weakness.
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