Job 9:30
Though I bathe myself in snow water, and cleanse, in cleanness itself, my hands,
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
In Context
29I, shall be held guilty,—Wherefore then, in vain, should I toil?
31Then, in a ditch, wouldst thou plunge me, and mine own clothes should abhor me:
Cross References
Job 31:7If my goings have swerved from the way,—and, after mine eyes, hath gone my heart, and, to my hands, hath adhered any stain,
Psalms 51:9Hide thy face from my sins,—And, all mine iniquities, blot out;
Isaiah 1:16Wash you make you clean, Put away the wickedness of your doings from before mine eyes,—Cease to do evil.
Jeremiah 4:14Wash from wickedness thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved,—How long, shall lodge within thee thy wicked devices?
1 John 1:8If we say—Sin, have we none! 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 →