Job 9:30
If I have washed myself with snow-water, || And purified my hands with soap,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
In Context
29I become wicked; why [is] this? I labor [in] vain.
31Then You dip me in corruption, || And my garments have detested me.
Cross References
Job 31:7If my step turns aside from the way, || And my heart has gone after my eyes, || And blemish has cleaved to my hands,
Psalms 51:9Hide Your face from my sin. And blot out all my iniquities.
Isaiah 1:16Wash yourselves, make yourselves pure, || Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before My eyes, || Cease to do evil, learn to do good.
Jeremiah 4:14Wash evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, || That you may be saved, || Until when do you lodge in your heart || Thoughts of your strength?
1 John 1:8if we may say, “We have no sin,” we lead ourselves astray, 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 →