Job 9:30
For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
In Context
29But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?
31thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.
Cross References
Job 31:7if my foot has turned aside out of the way, or if mine heart has followed mine eye, and if too I have touched gifts with my hands;
Psalms 51:9Behold the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity.
Isaiah 1:16Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities;
Jeremiah 4:14Cleanse thine heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayest be saved: how long will thy grievous thoughts be within thee?
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 →