Other translations
American Standard Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Darby Bible Translation
Who can bring a clean man out of the unclean? Not one!
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed ? is it not thou who only art?
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
God's Word
"If only an unclean person could become clean! It's not possible.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Who can produce something pure from what is impure? No one!
International Standard Version
Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!
NET Bible
Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
New American Standard Bible
"Who can make the clean out of the unclean? No one!
New International Version
Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
New Living Translation
Who can bring purity out of an impure person? No one!
Webster's Bible Translation
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
The World English Bible
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
EasyEnglish Bible
People are not clean and pure. Nobody can change them to become pure.
Young‘s Literal Translation
Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
New Life Version
Who can make clean what is unclean? No one!
The Voice Bible
Who can take what is impure and defiled to fashion something pure and pristine? No one! We are, after all, so different in nature.
Living Bible
How can you demand purity in one born impure?
New Catholic Bible
“Can a man be found who has avoided defilement? There is no such person.
Legacy Standard Bible
Who can make the clean out of the unclean? No one!
Jubilee Bible 2000
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one.
Christian Standard Bible
Who can produce something pure from what is impure? No one!
Amplified Bible © 1954
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!
New Century Version
No one can bring something clean from something dirty.
The Message
“We’re all adrift in the same boat: too few days, too many troubles. We spring up like wildflowers in the desert and then wilt, transient as the shadow of a cloud. Do you occupy your time with such fragile wisps? Why even bother hauling me into court? There’s nothing much to us to start with; how do you expect us to amount to anything? Mortals have a limited life span. You’ve already decided how long we’ll live— you set the boundary and no one can cross it. So why not give us a break? Ease up! Even ditchdiggers get occasional days off. For a tree there is always hope. Chop it down and it still has a chance— its roots can put out fresh sprouts. Even if its roots are old and gnarled, its stump long dormant, At the first whiff of water it comes to life, buds and grows like a sapling. But men and women? They die and stay dead. They breathe their last, and that’s it. Like lakes and rivers that have dried up, parched reminders of what once was, So mortals lie down and never get up, never wake up again—never. Why don’t you just bury me alive, get me out of the way until your anger cools? But don’t leave me there! Set a date when you’ll see me again. If we humans die, will we live again? That’s my question. All through these difficult days I keep hoping, waiting for the final change—for resurrection! Homesick with longing for the creature you made, you’ll call—and I’ll answer! You’ll watch over every step I take, but you won’t keep track of my missteps. My sins will be stuffed in a sack and thrown into the sea—sunk in deep ocean.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
Who can produce something pure from something that is impure? No one.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.
Good News Translation®
Nothing clean can ever come from anything as unclean as human beings.
Wycliffe Bible
Who may make a man clean (who is) conceived of unclean seed? Whether not thou, Lord, that art alone? (Who can make someone clean who is conceived of unclean seed? No one.)
Contemporary English Version
There's no way a human can be completely pure.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.
Common English Bible © 2011
Who can make pure from impure? Nobody.
Amplified Bible © 2015
“Who can make a clean thing out of the unclean? No one!
English Standard Version Anglicised
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Can anyone make the unclean clean? No one can.
New American Standard Bible
Who can make the clean out of the unclean? No one!
The Expanded Bible
No one can bring something clean [C in a ritual sense] from something unclean.
Tree of Life Version
Who can make something pure out of the impure? No one!
Revised Standard Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
New International Reader's Version
Who can bring what is pure from something that isn’t pure? No one!
BRG Bible
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Complete Jewish Bible
Who can bring what is pure from something impure? No one!
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
Who can bring a tahor (clean thing) out of a tameh (an unclean, cf Ro 5:12)? Loh echad (No one).
Names of God Bible
“If only an unclean person could become clean! It’s not possible.
Modern English Version
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is no one.
Easy-to-Read Version
“No one can make something clean from something so dirty.
International Children’s Bible
I wish something clean could come from something unclean. But it never can!
Lexham English Bible
“Who can bring a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!
New International Version - UK
Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!