Job 9:30
If I wash my selfe with snowe water, and purge mine hands most cleane,
Geneva Bible 1599
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, why labour I thus in vaine?
31Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine owne clothes shall make me filthie.
Cross References
Job 31:7If my steppe hath turned out of the way, or mine heart hath walked after mine eye, or if any blot hath cleaued to mine handes,
Psalms 51:9Hide thy face from my sinnes, and put away all mine iniquities.
Isaiah 1:16Wash you, make you cleane: take away the euill of your workes from before mine eyes: cease to doe euill.
Jeremiah 4:14O Ierusalem, wash thine heart from wickednes, that thou maiest be saued: how long shall thy wicked thoughtes remaine within thee?
1 John 1:8If we say that we haue no sinne, we deceiue our selues, and trueth is not in vs.
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 →