Job 9:30
If I wash myself in snow, And cleanse my hands with lye,
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
In Context
29I shall be found guilty; Why then should I labor in vain?
31Still wilt thou plunge me into the pit, So that my own clothes will abhor me.
Cross References
Job 31:7If my steps have turned aside from the way, And my heart gone after mine eyes, Or if any stain hath cleaved to my hand,
Psalms 51:9Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities!
Isaiah 1:16Wash you; make you clean; Put away your evil doings from before mine eyes;
Jeremiah 4:14Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, That thou mayst be saved! How long shall thy evil devices lodge within thee?
1 John 1:8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, 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 →