🌪️WEB · Job 9:30
What does Job 9:30 mean?
"If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,"
— Job 9:30 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.
I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
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