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Gill's Exposition
Who can bring a clean thing out of an clean?.... Either produce a clean person from an unclean one: it is not to be expected that one, perfectly free from sin, should be generated by, or brought out…
Barnes' Notes
Who can bring a clean - thing “out of an unclean?” This is evidently a proverb or an adage; but its connection here is not very apparent. Probably, however, it is designed as a plea of mitigation for…
We are here led to think,
I. Of the original of human life. God is indeed its great original, for he breathed into man the breath of life and in him we live; but we date it from our birth, and thence…
Cambridge Bible
The question of astonishment in Job 14:14 supported by reference to the universal sinfulness of man. The verse reads,
Oh that a clean might come out of an unclean!
There is not one.
The phrase who…
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