Job 15:14,15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

What is man? Hebrew, אנושׁ, enosh, frail, weak, imperfect man; that he should be clean? That is, that he should pretend to be so; or, that any should expect to find him so: and he that is born of a woman A sinful woman, from whom he has derived infirmity, corruption, and guilt; that he should be righteous? Just and holy in his own eyes, or in the eyes of others, and especially that he should be such in the sight of the just and holy God? Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints That is, in his angels, (see Job 4:18,) who are called his saints or holy ones, Deuteronomy 33:2; Daniel 4:13; Daniel 4:23. Who, though they were created holy, yet many of them fell. Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight The angels that dwell in heaven; heaven being put for its inhabitants. None of these are pure, simply, and perfectly, and comparatively to God. The angels are pure from corruption, but not from imperfection.

Job 15:14-15

14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.