Job 9:30

American Standard Version (1901)

If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 2:22 : 22 For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
  • 1 John 1:8 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
  • Job 31:7 : 7 If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands:
  • Ps 26:6 : 6 I will wash my hands in innocency: So will I compass thine altar, O Jehovah;
  • Prov 28:13 : 13 He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper: But whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.
  • Isa 1:16-18 : 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

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  • 31 Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.

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    28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

    29 I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

  • 7 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

  • 13 Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocency;

  • 9 I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

  • 9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

  • 17 Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

  • 7 If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands:

  • 2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.

  • 3 That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? [And], What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

  • 6 I will wash my hands in innocency: So will I compass thine altar, O Jehovah;

  • 4 For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes.

  • Job 9:19-21
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    19 If [we speak] of strength, lo, [he is] mighty! And if of justice, Who, [saith he], will summon me?

    20 Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.

    21 I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.

  • Ps 18:23-24
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    23 I was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from mine iniquity.

    24 Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

  • 19 He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • 22 For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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    3 O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands;

  • Job 10:14-15
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    14 If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

    15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction.

  • 12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, And [yet] are not washed from their filthiness.

  • 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

  • 14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

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    24 I was also perfect toward him; And I kept myself from mine iniquity.

    25 Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.

  • 6 When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!

  • Job 10:6-7
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    6 That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, And searchest after my sin,

    7 Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?

  • 32 That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?

  • 3 I have put off my garment; How shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20 If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

    21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

  • 6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], And repent in dust and ashes.

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    3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?

    4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

  • 9 Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities.

  • 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

  • 9 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.

  • 15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

  • 35 Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

  • 4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

  • 10 And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, And hath not sworn deceitfully.

  • 15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.

  • 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

  • 20 Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

  • 9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?