Job 9:31
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
World English Bible Classic
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 with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
Cross References
Job 14:17My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
Isaiah 59:6Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.
Jeremiah 2:22For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord GOD.
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 →