Job 14:4

"Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?"

Key Reflection

In Job 14:4, God asks if He should scrutinize an unclean person as closely as He does His own righteousness, questioning the fairness of judging someone so frail against such a standard. This highlights the disparity between divine and human perspectives on justice and judgment.

From the Scholars: 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 his conscious frailties and infirmities. He could not but admit that he had faults. But he asks, how could it be expected to be otherwise? He belonged to a race that was sinful and depraved.

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