Job 9:31
Even then wouldst thou plunge me in the ditch, that my own clothes would render me abhorred.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
In Context
30If I were to wash myself in snow-water, to cleanse myself in the purity of my hands:
32For he is not a man, like me, that I could answer him, that we should enter together into a contest.
Cross References
Job 14:17Sealed up in a bag is my transgression, and thou yet addest to my iniquity.
Isaiah 59:6Their webs cannot serve for garments, and they cannot clothe themselves with their works: their works are works of wickedness, and the deed of violence is in their hands.
Jeremiah 2:22For though thou wash thyself with natron, and take for thyself much soap: yet would the stain of thy iniquity remain before me, saith the Lord Eternal.
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 →