Job 9:30
Even if I wash myself with pure mountain water and clean my hands with soap,
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
In Context
29Since I'm condemned, what's the point in arguing?
31you would toss me into a slime pit so that even my own clothes would hate me!
Cross References
Job 31:7If I have wandered from God's way, if I have let what I see become my desires, if there's any stain of sin on my hands,
Psalms 51:9Turn your face away from looking at my sins; please wipe away my guilt.
Isaiah 1:16Wash yourselves and clean yourselves up. Get rid of your sins—I don't want to see them! Stop doing evil!
Jeremiah 4:14Clean the evil from your heart, Jerusalem, so that you can be saved. How long will you hold onto your evil thoughts?
1 John 1:8If we claim to be sinless we only fool 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 →