Job 15:14

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

The friend of Job is denouncing him and explaining that there is no hope of being clean and righteous in the sight of God. Job is justifying himself that there is no iniquity to be found to condemn him. Man always has to put their two cents in on what only God can do and knows. What is man, that he should be clean - great questions of the Bible; Was it not so in the beginning that Adam was clean, and without sin?; The friend of Job's says it is impossible for man to be clean. Yet, Adam was clean before his disobedience; Jesus was man, born of a woman, yet He was clean and without sin. And it has always been God's plan and work to make man clean. In the Old Testament, we have the sacrifices to be offered so that the Lord would accept the blood and pardon the sin of man. In the New Testament there was one sacrifice for all mankind, in Jesus so that all might be clean. It may be the thinking of man to denounce the ways of God. it is easy to sin, it is easy to stay in sin, but the desire of God has always been to make us clean. Man disregards this and views their ways as their own selfish desires to please self. Their belief is that man can never be clean, so just try to a little, no sense overdoing it. they do not seek for pardon, they seek for pleasure.