Job 9:30

World English Bible (2000)

If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 2:22 : 22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me," says the Lord Yahweh.
  • 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 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
  • Job 31:7 : 7 if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
  • Ps 26:6 : 6 I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh;
  • Prov 28:13 : 13 He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
  • Isa 1:16-18 : 16 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my 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," says Yahweh: "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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    29I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

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

  • 13Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

  • 9'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

  • 9Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

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

  • 7if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

  • 2Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

  • 3That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

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    19If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'

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    23I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

    24Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

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  • 22For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me," says the Lord Yahweh.

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    3Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

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    14if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

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  • 16Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

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

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    24I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

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    6that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

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    3Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

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

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  • 10Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • 4He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

  • 15Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

  • 10Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

  • 20Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.

  • 9"What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?