Job 9:31
you had thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.
LXX2012 (US English)
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, and purge myself with pure hands,
32For you are not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.
Cross References
Job 14:17And you have sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares.
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 you should wash yourself with nitre, and multiply to yourself soap, still you are stained by your iniquities before me, says 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 →