Job 9:31

Still wilt thou plunge me into the pit, So that my own clothes will abhor me.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

30If I wash myself in snow, And cleanse my hands with lye,

32For He is not a man, as I am, that I may contend with him, And that we may go together into judgment;

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Cross References

Job 14:17My transgression is sealed up in a bag; Yea, thou addest unto my iniquity.

Isaiah 59:6Of their webs no garment is made, Nor can one cover himself with their work; Their works are works of iniquity, And the deed of violence is in their hands.

Jeremiah 2:22For though thou wash thee with nitre, And take thee much soap, Yet is thine iniquity black before me, saith Jehovah.

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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