Job 9:30
If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
In Context
29You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?
31Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.
Cross References
Job 31:7If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;
Psalms 51:9\51:7\Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.
Isaiah 1:16Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;
Jeremiah 4:14O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?
1 John 1:8If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.
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 →