Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
What is man, that he should be clean? - mah enosh ; what is weak, sickly, dying, miserable man, that he should be clean? This is the import of the original word enosh.
And - born of a woman, that he should be righteous? - It appears, from many passages in the sacred writings, that natural birth was supposed to be a defilement; and that every man born into the world was in a state of moral pollution. Perhaps the word yitsdak should be translated, that he should justify himself, and not that he should be righteous.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Job 25:1
Job 25:5
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