Job 9:30
If I wash myself with sheleg (snow), 1 and make my hands clean with lye, 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
In Context
29If I be wicked, 1 why then labor I in hevel (vain)? 1
31Yet shalt Thou plunge me in the shachat (slime pit), 1 and mine own clothes shall abhor me. 1
Cross References
Job 31:7If my step hath turned out of the derech, 1 and mine lev walked after mine eyes, 1 and if any mum hath cleaved to mine hands, 1
Psalms 51:9Purge me with ezov (hyssop), 1 and I shall be tahor; 1 wash me, 1 and I shall be whiter than sheleg (snow). 1
Isaiah 1:16Wash you, make you clean; 1 put away the evil of your doings 1 from before Mine eyes; 1 cease to do evil; 1
Jeremiah 4:14O Yerushalayim, wash thine lev from rah, 1 that thou mayest be saved. 1 Ad mosai (how long, how much longer) 1 shall thy sinful machsh'vot lodge within thee? 1
1 John 1:8If we make the claim that we do not have avon (sin), we cause ourselves to fall under mirmah + 1:8 Isa 53:9 (deceit, fraud) and HaEmes is not in us. + 1:8 Prov 20:9; Jer 2:35
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 →