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Job 9:30
30If I wash myself with melted snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
Job 9:30 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
- New International Version (NIV)Even if I washed myself with soap and my hands with cleansing powder,
- English Standard Version (ESV)If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
- New King James Version (NKJV)If I wash myself with snow water, And cleanse my hands with soap,
Context of Job 9:30
28I still dread all my pains, for I know You will not find me innocent. 29If I am condemned— why should I struggle in vain? If I wash myself with melted snow and cleanse my hands with lye, 31then You would plunge me into a pit and my own clothes would detest me. 32For He is not a human being, like I am, that I could answer Him, that we could go to court together.
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אִם־הִתְרָחַ֥צְתִּי בְמֵי שָׁ֑לֶג וַ֝הֲזִכּ֗וֹתִי בְּבֹ֣ר כַּפָּֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 9:30
- Psalms 26:6I will wash my hands in innocence, so I can walk around Your altar, Adonai,
- Proverbs 28:13One who covers up his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them finds mercy.
- Isaiah 1:16“Wash and make yourselves clean. Put away the evil of your deeds from before My eyes. Cease to do evil.
- Jeremiah 2:22Even though you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your iniquity is before Me.” It is a declaration of the Lord Adonai.
- Jeremiah 4:14O Jerusalem, purify your heart from wickedness, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
- Romans 10:3For being ignorant of God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God.
- 1 John 1:8If we say we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
Commentaries on Job 9:30
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 30If I wash myself with snow water - Supposed to have a more detergent quality than common water; and it was certainly preferred to common water by the ancients. Of this we find an example in an elegant but licentious author: Tandem ergo discubuimus, pueris Alexandrinis Aquam in manus Nivatam infundentibus, aliisque insequentibus ad pedes - Petr. Satyr., cap. xxxi. "At length we sat down, and had snow water poured on our hands by lads of Alexandria," etc…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 30If I wash myself with snow water - If I should make myself as pure as possible, and should become, in my view, perfectly holy. Snow water, it seems, was regarded as especially pure. The whiteness of snow itself perhaps suggested the idea that the water of melted snow was better than other for purification. Washing the hands formerly was an emblem of cleansing from guilt. Hence Pilate, when he gave up the Savior to death, took water and washed his hands…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. 30wash myself: Job talked about using the strongest soap (lye) to represent removing all sin (1:5; compare Psalm 26:6; Matthew 27:24).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3030. snow water--thought to be more cleansing than common water, owing to the whiteness of snow (Psa 51:7; Is 1:18). never so clean--Better, to answer to the parallelism of the first clause which expresses the cleansing material, "lye:" the Arabs used alkali mixed with oil, as soap (Psa 73:13; Jr 2:22).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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