Job 9:30

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 9:30 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 31:7If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,
  2. Psalms 26:6I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
  3. Psalms 51:9Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
  4. Proverbs 28:13He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
  5. Isaiah 1:16Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
  6. Jeremiah 2:22Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.
  7. Jeremiah 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
  8. Romans 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
  9. 1 John 1:8If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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