Job 9:30 · KJV
“If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;”
— Job 9:30
{If} I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. {abhor...: or, make me to be abhorred}
Job 9 — Context
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?
30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. {abhor...: or, make me to be abhorred}
32For {he is} not a man, as I {am, that} I should answer him, {and} we should come together in judgment.
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:22
For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, {yet} thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
Psalms 26:6
I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Job 31:7
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
Romans 10:3
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Isaiah 1:16-18
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Proverbs 28:13
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh {them} shall have mercy.