Job 9:31
Then, in a ditch, wouldst thou plunge me, and mine own clothes should abhor me:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
In Context
30Though I bathe myself in snow water, and cleanse, in cleanness itself, my hands,
32For he is not a man like myself, whom I might answer, nor could we come together into judgment:
Cross References
Job 14:17Sealed up in a bag, is my transgression, and thou hast glued over mine iniquity.
Isaiah 59:6Their threads, shall not become a garment, Neither shall they cover themselves with their fabrics,—Their fabrics, are fabrics of iniquity, Yea the product of violence is in their hands;
Jeremiah 2:22For though thou wash thee with nitre, And take thee much soap, Yet is thine iniquity inscribed before me Declareth My Lord Yahweh.
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 →