Job 9:31
yet thou will plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
In Context
30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,
32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
Cross References
Job 14:17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou fasten up my iniquity.
Isaiah 59:6Their webs shall not become garments, nor shall they cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Jeremiah 2:22For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, says lord LORD.
Matthew Henry on Job 9:26-35
25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: 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? 30 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… Read the whole commentary →