Job 9:30
If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
In Context
29Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
31then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
Cross References
Job 31:7If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,
Psalms 51:9Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
Isaiah 1:16Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
Jeremiah 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
1 John 1:8If we say 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 →