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Job 9:31
31But then God would throw me down into a dirty hole. Even my own clothes would be ashamed of me!
Job 9:31 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
- New International Version (NIV)you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Yet You will plunge me into the pit, And my own clothes will abhor me.
Context of Job 9:31
29So, if I am guilty, it is useless to do anything about it. 30I might wash myself with pure water. I might clean my hands with soap. But then God would throw me down into a dirty hole. Even my own clothes would be ashamed of me! 32God is not a human, as I am. So I cannot answer him. We cannot argue with each other in court. 33There is nobody who can decide which of us is right. Nobody has authority to judge both of us.
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אָ֭ז בַּשַּׁ֣חַת תִּטְבְּלֵ֑נִי וְ֝תִֽעֲב֗וּנִי שַׂלְמוֹתָֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 9:31
- Job 9:20I am right. I have not done anything that is wrong. But my words would say that I am guilty.
- Job 15:6I do not need to show that you are guilty. Your own words show that you are wrong.
- Isaiah 59:6Their webs are useless to make clothes. They cannot cover themselves with them. The things that they do are useless like that. They do only wicked things. They use their strength only to hurt people.
- Isaiah 64:6Our sins have made us all like unclean people, who cannot worship you. Even the good things that we try to do are like dirty bits of cloth. Our sins will blow us all away, as the wind blows away dead leaves.
- Philippians 3:8Yes, now that I know Christ Jesus as my Lord, that is the most valuable thing. Nothing else is important at all. I have thrown everything else away, so that I can serve Christ. All those other things are like dirt to me. I think about them like that, so that I can have Christ.
Commentaries on Job 9:31
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 31And mine own clothes shall abhor me - Such is thine infinite purity, when put in opposition to the purity of man, that it will bear no comparison. Searched and tried by the eye of God, I should be found as a leper, so that my own clothes would dread to touch me, for fear of being infected by my corruption. This is a strong and bold figure; and is derived from the corrupted state of his body, which his clothes dreaded to touch, because of the contagious…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch - God would treat me as if he should throw me into the gutter, and as if I were wholly defiled and polluted. The meaning is, God would not admit the proofs which I should adduce of my innocence, but would overwhelm me with the demonstrations of my guilt. I doubt not that Job urged this with some degree of impatience, and with some improper feelings. He felt, evidently, that God was so great and powerful, that it was…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 25-35Verses 25-35 What little need have we of pastimes, and what great need to redeem time, when it runs on so fast towards eternity! How vain the enjoyments of time, which we may quite lose while yet time continues! The remembrance of having done our duty will be pleasing afterwards; so will not the remembrance of having got worldly wealth, when it is all lost and gone. Job's complaint of God, as one that could not be appeased and would not relent, was the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 31The pit can refer to the place of dead people, suggesting the "corruption" of death (17:14; 33:18). The dirty clothes representing being guilty contrast with the clean clothes representing being innocent (Zechariah 3:3–5; see Isaiah 61:10; 64:6; Revelation 19:8).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-35FIRST SERIES. 2. I know it is so of a truth--that God does not "pervert justice" (Job 8:3). But (even though I be sure of being in the right) how can a mere man assert his right--(be just) with God. The Gospel answers (Ro 3:26).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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