Job 9:30
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Revised Version 1895
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 labour in vain?
31Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Cross References
Job 31:7If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any spot hath cleaved to mine hands:
Psalms 51:9Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
Isaiah 1:16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil:
Jeremiah 4:14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?
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 →