Job 9:31

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

29Whatever happens, I will be found guilty. So what’s the use of trying? 30Even if I were to wash myself with soap and clean my hands with lye, you would plunge me into a muddy ditch, and my own filthy clothing would hate me. 32“God is not a mortal like me, so I cannot argue with him or take him to trial. 33If only there were a mediator between us, someone who could bring us together.

Job 9:31 word by word

אָ֭ז בַּשַּׁ֣חַת תִּטְבְּלֵ֑נִי וְ֝תִֽעֲב֗וּנִי שַׂלְמוֹתָֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Yetאָז'âz · thenH227
• shalt thou plungeטָבַלţâbal · to dipH2881
• me in the ditchשַׁ֫חַתshachath · pit: graveH7845
• and mine own clothesשַׂלְמָהώalmâh · garmentH8008
• shall abhorתַּעָבtâ‛ab · to abhorH8581

Cross-references for Job 9:31

• Job 9:20Though I am innocent, my own mouth would pronounce me guilty. Though I am blameless, it would prove me wicked.
• Job 15:6Your own mouth condemns you, not I. Your own lips testify against you.
• Isaiah 59:6Their webs can’t be made into clothing, and nothing they do is productive. All their activity is filled with sin, and violence is their trademark.
• Isaiah 64:6We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind.
• Philippians 3:8Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain 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

Topics related to Job 9:31

• Afflictions and Adversities
• God

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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