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Job 9:29–31

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29If I be wicked,

Why then labour I in vain?

30If I wash myself with jsnow water,

And kmake my hands never so clean;

31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch,

And mine own clothes shall ||abhor me.

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Footnotes

  1. jch. 24:19.
  2. kJer. 2:22. Comp. ch. 22:30 (Heb.).
  3. ||Or, make me to be abhorred. Ezek. 16:25. Not so ch. 19:19. & 30:10.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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 into a pit,

and my own clothes will abhor me.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Since I am already found guilty,

why should I struggle in vain?

Even if I washed myself with soap

and my hands with cleansing powder,

you would plunge me into a slime pit

so that even my clothes would detest me.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Since I will be found guilty,

why should I struggle in vain?

If I wash myself with snow,

and cleanse my hands with lye,

then you dip me in a pit of mud,

and my own clothes despise me!

NLTNew Living Translation

Whatever happens, I will be found guilty.

So what’s the use of trying?

Even if I were to wash myself with soap

and clean my hands with lye,

you would plunge me into a muddy ditch,

and my own filthy clothing would hate me.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

If I shall be declared guilty,

why then should I labor in vain?

If I wash myself with soap,

and I cleanse my hands with lye,

then you plunge me into the slime pit,

and my clothes abhor me.