Job 9:30
If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
In Context
29Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain?
31yet you would plunge me in filth, and my own garments would abhor me.
Cross References
Job 31:7If my steps have turned aside from the way, or if my heart has followed my eyes, or if a blemish has clung to my hands,
Psalms 51:9“Behold the man who did not set God as his helper. But he hoped in the multitude of his riches, and so he prevailed in his emptiness.”
Isaiah 1:16Wash, become clean, take away the evil of your intentions from my eyes. Cease to act perversely.
Jeremiah 4:14Wash your heart from malice, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will harmful thoughts abide in you?
1 John 1:8If we claim that we have no sin, then we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not 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 →