Job 9:31
you would toss me into a slime pit so that even my own clothes would hate me!
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
In Context
30Even if I wash myself with pure mountain water and clean my hands with soap,
32For God is not a mortal being like me, I can't defend myself or take him to court.
Cross References
Job 14:17My sins would be sealed up in a bag and you would cover my guilt.
Isaiah 59:6Their webs can't be made into clothes; they can't cover themselves by what they produce. What they do is wicked; they use their hands to commit violence.
Jeremiah 2:22Even bleach and plenty of soap can't get rid of your guilty stains. I still see them, declares the Lord God.
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 →