Job 9:30
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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 DomainASVPD
“If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 9:30 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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,
- Psalms 26:6I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
- Psalms 51:9Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
- Proverbs 28:13He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
- Isaiah 1:16Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
- 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.
- 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?
- Romans 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
- 1 John 1:8If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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