מָֽה־אֱנ֥וֹשׁ כִּֽי־יִזְכֶּ֑ה וְכִֽי־יִ֝צְדַּ֗ק יְל֣וּד אִשָּֽׁה׃
Apakah artinya manusia, sehingga ia dapat menjadi bersih? Dan orang yang dilahirkan oleh perempuan, sehingga ia dapat menjadi orang benar?
Rashi
What is man that he should be innocent What is his strength, that he can be innocent against the Holy One, blessed be He?
Malbim
Eliphaz returns to the vision of which he first spoke in his previous speech, that in which he had claimed to have been told that the righteous suffer in order to atone for some minor sin, and, furthermore, that this was quite just because no-one was so righteous that he has never sinned.