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Job 25:4Job.25.4

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean [that is] born of a woman?

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Comment l'homme serait-il juste devant Dieu? Comment celui qui est né de la femme serait-il pur?

KJV

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean [that is] born of a woman?

Patristic reading

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  • Hilary of Poitiers

    Fragments from Other Works of Saint Hilary

    om sin through the glory of this victory; as it was said: "Or how can one born of a woman be pure?" (Job 25:4). Because if there is no enemy, there will be no war; and when the war ends, victory will be missing. But if we do not conquer the vices that confront us, there will be n…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    on 3: Further, those who are conceived of a woman contract a certain uncleanness: as it is written ( Job 25:4 ): "Can man be justified compared with God? Or he that is born of a woman appear clean?" But it was unbecoming that any uncleanness should be in Christ: for He is the Wis…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 92 (Migne)

    ebat, sicut scriptum est: Quid est homo, ut immaculatus sit, et ut mundus appareat natus de muliere (Job. XXV, 4) . Respondens autem Jesus dixit ei: Sine modo, sic enim decet nos implere omnem justitiam; tunc dimisit eum. Ac si dixisset, primum me baptiza in aqua, quod praecepi…

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