Job 9:30
If I wash myself with snow,and cleanse my hands with lye,
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
In Context
29I shall be condemned.Why then do I labor in vain?
31yet you will plunge me in the ditch.My own clothes shall abhor me.
Cross References
Job 31:7if my step has turned out of the way,if my heart walked after my eyes,if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
Psalms 51:9Hide your face from my sins,and blot out all of my iniquities.
Isaiah 1:16Wash yourselves, make yourself clean.Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes.Cease to do evil.
Jeremiah 4:14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
1 John 1:8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive 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 →