Job 9:30
If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
In Context
29I — I am become wicked; why [is] this? [In] vain I labour.
31Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.
Cross References
Job 31:7If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,
Psalms 51:9Hide Thy face from my sin. And all mine iniquities blot out.
Isaiah 1:16Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.
Jeremiah 4:14Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?
1 John 1:8if we may say — 'we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, 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 →