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How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
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Verse 4. Clean. Job had used a similar expression, as well as Eliphaz. Calmet. 4:17 and 14:4 and 15:15. The holy man did not assert that he was free from sin, but only that God did not punish him ( Calmet.) so dreadfully ( Bible.) on that account, and that he has just reasons for afflicting his servants, if it were only to manifest his own power and glory. Calmet.
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