Job 9:30
If I be washed as it were with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean :
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
In Context
29But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?
31Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me,
Cross References
Job 31:7If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:
Psalms 51:9Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.
Isaiah 1:16Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,
Jeremiah 4:14Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?
1 John 1:8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive 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 →