Job 9:30
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
- KJV
- If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
- WEB
- If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
- ASV
- If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;
- DARBY
- If I washed myself with snow-water, and cleansed my hands in purity,
- BLB
- If I wash myself with water of snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
- ÅB
- Om jeg vasket meg med snø og renset mine hender med lut,
- OTB
- Selv om jeg vasket meg med snø
og renset mine hender med lut, - B1930
- Om jeg tvettet mig med sne og renset mine hender med lut,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 2:22
For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
Read in contextPsalms 26:6
I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
Read in context1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:16–18
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Read in contextJeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Read in contextRomans 10:3
For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Read in contextProverbs 28:13
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Read in contextJob 31:7
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
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