Job 14:1,4

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Job 14:1,4 “Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.”

I have a question. How do we reconcile this with Mary and Jesus being sinless? Thanks and God bless.
 
Through the doctrines/dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and the Virgin Birth.

When we read certain verses/passages in the Bible we have to take into account the context, who is “speaking”, and what the author of the writing was trying to convey to his readers/listeners. To interpret them literalistically is to narrow them to the point of making no sense when we know what the Church teaches.

The Bible is a witness to the work of God in and through, firstly, the people of Israel and now in his Church. It cannot be separated from that understanding/context. If it is it becomes useless to us and a hindrance to truth instead of a help.
 
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? God, of course. We call it the Immaculate Conception.
 
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Job 14:1,4 “Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.”

I have a question. How do we reconcile this with Mary and Jesus being sinless? Thanks and God bless.
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As Joe Kelley said, God can do such a thing. Job states, later in the same text (in 42:2), that God is ompotent.

The words which you quoted are from one of Job’s rants. The text ends with God issuing a series of questions to Job which illuminate the actual limits of Job’s understanding: God proves Job ignorant of his universe, and then scolds him (in 42:3) for reaching a conclusion based upon insufficient comprehension.
 
I feel dimb. Thanks guys. I don’t know what I would do without people like ya’ll.
 
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