Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
If I wash myself with soap, and I cleanse my hands with lye,
New American Standard Bible
And cleanse
King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Holman Bible
and cleanse my hands with lye,
International Standard Version
"If I wash myself with water from snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
A Conservative Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,
American Standard Version
If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;
Amplified
“If I were to wash myself with snow
And cleanse my hands with lye,
Bible in Basic English
If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;
Darby Translation
If I washed myself with snow-water, and cleansed my hands in purity,
Julia Smith Translation
If I washed myself in snow-water, and cleansed my hands clean;
King James 2000
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean;
Modern King James verseion
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Though I washed my self with snowy water, and made mine hands never so clean,
NET Bible
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,
New Heart English Bible
If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
The Emphasized Bible
Though I bathe myself in snow water, and cleanse, in cleanness itself, my hands,
Webster
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,
Youngs Literal Translation
If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,
Themes
Pardon » Outward purifications, ineffectual for
Purifications or baptisms » Insufficient for spiritual purification
Self-righteousness » Is vain because our righteousness is » Ineffectual for salvation
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:30
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
29 [If] I shall be [declared] guilty, why then should I labor in vain? 30 If I wash myself with soap, and I cleanse my hands with lye, 31 then you plunge me into the [slime] pit, and my clothes abhor me.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:22
For if you wash with natron, and you {use much soap}, your guilt [is] sticking as a stain {before} me," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.
Job 31:7
If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot,
Psalm 26:6
I will wash my hands in innocence, and I will walk about your altar, O Yahweh,
Proverbs 28:13
He who conceals his transgression will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes will obtain mercy.
Isaiah 1:16-18
Wash! Make yourselves clean! Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes! Cease to do evil!
Jeremiah 4:14
Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long} will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part?
Romans 10:3
For ignoring the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we do not have sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.