Job 9:31
Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine owne clothes shall make me filthie.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 my selfe with snowe water, and purge mine hands most cleane,
32For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement.
Cross References
Job 14:17Mine iniquitie is sealed vp, as in a bagge, and thou addest vnto my wickednesse.
Isaiah 59:6Their webbes shall be no garment, neither shall they couer themselues with their labours: for their workes are workes of iniquitie, and the worke of crueltie is in their handes.
Jeremiah 2:22Though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much sope, yet thine iniquitie is marked before me, sayeth 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 →