Job 9:31

Thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, 1 And my garment had abhorred me. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

In Context

30For if I should wash myself with snow, 1 And purge myself with pure hands, 1

32For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, 1 That we might come together to judgment. 1

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Cross References

Job 14:17And thou hast sealed up my transgressions in a bag, 1 And marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares. 1

Isaiah 59:6Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.

Jeremiah 2:22Though thou shouldest wash thyself with niter, and multiply to thyself soap, still thou art stained by thine iniquities before me, saith the Lord.

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 →

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