Job 9:31 · KJV
“Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. {abhor...: or, make me to be abhorred}”
— Job 9:31
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
For {he is} not a man, as I {am, that} I should answer him, {and} we should come together in judgment.
Job 9 — Context
{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.
33Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, {that} might lay his hand upon us both. {any...: Heb. one that should argue} {daysman: or, umpire}
Cross References
Isaiah 59:6
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works {are} works of iniquity, and the act of violence {is} in their hands.
Philippians 3:8-9
Yea doubtless, and I count all things {but} loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them {but} dung, that I may win Christ,
Isaiah 64:6
But we are all as an unclean {thing}, and all our righteousnesses {are} as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Job 15:6
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
Job 9:20
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: {if I say}, I {am} perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.