Job 9:30

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 2:22 : 22 But though thou dost wash with nitre, And dost multiply to thyself soap, Marked is thine iniquity before Me, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
  • 1 John 1:8 : 8 if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.
  • Job 31:7 : 7 If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,
  • Ps 26:6 : 6 I wash in innocency my hands, And I compass Thine altar, O Jehovah.
  • Prov 28:13 : 13 Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.
  • Isa 1:16-18 : 16 Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good. 17 Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive `for' the widow. 18 Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

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  • 31 Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.

  • Job 9:28-29
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    28 I have been afraid of all my griefs, I have known that Thou dost not acquit me.

    29 I -- I am become wicked; why `is' this? `In' vain I labour.

  • 7 Thou cleansest me with hyssop and I am clean, Washest me, and than snow I am whiter.

  • 13 Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,

  • 9 `Pure `am' I, without transgression, Innocent `am' I, and I have no iniquity.

  • 9 Who saith, `I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'

  • 17 Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer `is' pure.

  • 7 If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,

  • 2 Thoroughly wash me from mine iniquity, And from my sin cleanse me,

  • 3 For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

  • 6 I wash in innocency my hands, And I compass Thine altar, O Jehovah.

  • 4 And thou sayest, `Pure `is' my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'

  • Job 9:19-21
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    73%

    19 If of power, lo, the Strong One; And if of judgment -- who doth convene me?

    20 If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! -- it declareth me perverse.

    21 Perfect I am! -- I know not my soul, I despise my life.

  • Ps 18:23-24
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    23 And I am perfect with him, And I keep myself from mine iniquity.

    24 And Jehovah doth return to me, According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, Over-against his eyes.

  • 19 Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • 22 But though thou dost wash with nitre, And dost multiply to thyself soap, Marked is thine iniquity before Me, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

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

  • Job 10:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,

    15 If I have done wickedly -- wo to me, And righteously -- I lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction,

  • 12 A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

  • 16 Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

  • 14 What `is' man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

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    24 And I am perfect before Him, And I keep myself from mine iniquity.

    25 And Jehovah returneth to me, According to my righteousness, According to my cleanness before His eyes.

  • 6 When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock `is' with me rivulets of oil.

  • Job 10:6-7
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    6 That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?

    7 For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.

  • 32 Besides `that which' I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done -- I do not add?'

  • 3 I have put off my coat, how do I put it on? I have washed my feet, how do I defile them?

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20 I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself -- and what?

    21 Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!

  • 6 Therefore do I loathe `it', And I have repented on dust and ashes.

  • Job 14:3-4
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    3 Also -- on this Thou hast opened Thine eyes, And dost bring me into judgment with Thee.

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

  • 9 Hide Thy face from my sin. And all mine iniquities blot out.

  • 5 If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;

  • 9 And the righteous layeth hold `on' his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all.

  • 15 Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.

  • 35 And thou sayest, `Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?' Lo, I have been judged with thee, Because of thy saying, `I have not sinned.'

  • 4 And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?

  • 10 And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain -- He doth not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.

  • 4 The clean of hands, and pure of heart, Who hath not lifted up to vanity his soul, Nor hath sworn to deceit.

  • 15 Whom, though I were righteous, I answer not, For my judgment I make supplication.

  • 10 Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

  • 20 Jehovah doth recompense me According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, He doth return to me.

  • 9 `What gain `is' in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?