Job 9:30
If I washed myself with snow water 1 and made my hands ever so clean, 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
In Context
29I will be condemned; 1 why, then, should I try in vain? 1
31God would plunge me in a ditch, 1 and my own clothes would be disgusted with me. 1
Cross References
Job 31:7If my step has turned aside from the way, 1 if my heart has gone after my eyes, 1 if any spot has stuck to my hands, 1
Psalms 51:9Hide your face from my sins 1 and blot out all my iniquities. 1
Isaiah 1:16Wash, cleanse yourselves; 1 remove the evil of your deeds from my sight; 1 stop being evil; 1
Jeremiah 4:14Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you might be saved. How long will your deepest thoughts be about how to sin?
1 John 1:8If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving 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 →