KJV King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
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Job 9:30
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
WEB World English Bible
If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
ASV American Standard Version
If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,
Surrounding context — Job 9
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 me.
32 For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment.
33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, [that] might lay his hand upon us both.
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Jeremiah 2:22For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, [yet] thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.Psalm 26:6I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:1 John 1:8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.Job 31:7If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;Proverbs 28:13He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall have mercy.Isaiah 1:16-18Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;Romans 10:3For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.Jeremiah 4:14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
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