Job 9:30
New International Version
Even if I washed myself with soap and my hands with cleansing powder,

New Living Translation
Even if I were to wash myself with soap and clean my hands with lye,

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

Berean Standard Bible
If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

King James Bible
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

New King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, And cleanse my hands with soap,

New American Standard Bible
“If I washed myself with snow, And cleansed my hands with lye,

NASB 1995
“If I should wash myself with snow And cleanse my hands with lye,

NASB 1977
“If I should wash myself with snow And cleanse my hands with lye,

Legacy Standard Bible
If I should wash myself with snow And cleanse my hands with lye,

Amplified Bible
“If I were to wash myself with snow And cleanse my hands with lye,

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

American Standard Version
If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if I am washed in water of snow and I am cleansed in the purity of my hands

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,

Contemporary English Version
Even if I washed myself with the strongest soap,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I be washed as it were with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean :

English Revised Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If I wash myself with lye soap and cleanse my hands with bleach,

Good News Translation
No soap can wash away my sins.

International Standard Version
"If I wash myself with water from snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

JPS Tanakh 1917
If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;

Literal Standard Version
If I have washed myself with snow-water, | And purified my hands with soap,

Majority Standard Bible
If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

New American Bible
If I should wash myself with soap and cleanse my hands with lye,

NET Bible
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,

New Revised Standard Version
If I wash myself with soap and cleanse my hands with lye,

New Heart English Bible
If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands with lye,

Webster's Bible Translation
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

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

Young's Literal Translation
If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,

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Context
Job: How Can I Argue with God?
29Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain? 30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, 31then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.…

Cross References
Job 9:31
then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

Job 31:7
If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

Job 35:3
For you ask, 'What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?'

Jeremiah 2:22
Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me," declares the Lord GOD.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Psalm 26:6
I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:

Proverbs 28:13
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

Isaiah 1:16-18
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; …

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Job 9
1. Job acknowledges God's justice
22. Man's innocence is not to be condemned by afflictions














Verse 30. - If I wash myself with snow-water (comp. Psalm 51:7). If I should succeed in purging myself of all guilt, and establishing, so far as words can do it, my spotless innocence even then what advantage should I gain? Snow-water does not really cleanse what is defiled better than any other water, but a lively fancy might suppose it to do so. Job indulges in this fancy, but then checks himself, and adds a prosaic alternative. And make my hands never so clean; rather, and make my hands clean with lye. Lye, or potash, is the principal and most essential ingredient in soap. and the readiest and best detergent. If Job cleanses himself to the very utmost, "Cut bone?" he asks.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

I should wash myself
הִתְרָחַ֥צְתִּי (hiṯ·rā·ḥaṣ·tî)
Verb - Hitpael - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7364: To wash, wash off or away, bathe

with snow
שָׁ֑לֶג (šā·leḡ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

and cleanse
וַ֝הֲזִכּ֗וֹתִי (wa·hă·zik·kō·w·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 2141: To be bright, clean or pure

my hands
כַּפָּֽי׃ (kap·pāy)
Noun - fdc | first person common singular
Strong's 3709: Hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot), a pan

with lye,
בְּבֹ֣ר (bə·ḇōr)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1253: Vegetable lye, a soap for, washing, a flux for, metals


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