Job 9:31
29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
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.
33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
- KJV
- Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
- WEB
- yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
- ASV
- Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.
- DARBY
- Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me.
- BLB
- yet into the pit You will plunge me, and my own garments will abhor me.
- ÅB
- da skulle du dyppe meg i en grøft, så mine klær vemmedes ved meg.
- OTB
- ville Du kaste meg i en grop,
slik at selv mine klær ville avsky meg. - B1930
- da skulde du dyppe mig i en grøft, så mine klær vemmedes ved mig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 15:6
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
Read in contextPhilippians 3:8–9
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
Read in contextJob 9:20
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Read in contextIsaiah 59:6
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Read in contextIsaiah 64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
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