Job 9:30
If I were to wash myself in snow-water, to cleanse myself in the purity of my hands:
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
In Context
29I must ever be guilty: why then should I fatigue myself for nought?
31Even then wouldst thou plunge me in the ditch, that my own clothes would render me abhorred.
Cross References
Job 31:7If my step have turned aside from the [proper] way, and my heart have walked after my eyes, and if any blemish have cleaved to my hands:
Psalms 51:9(51:11) Hide thy face from my sins, and all my iniquities do thou blot out.
Isaiah 1:16Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
Jeremiah 4:14Wash from wrong doing thy heart, O Jerusalem, in order that thou mayest be saved. How long wilt thou let lodge within thee the thoughts of thy wickedness?
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 →