Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
then you plunge me into the [slime] pit, and my clothes abhor me.
New American Standard Bible
And my own clothes would abhor me.
King James Version
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Holman Bible
and my own clothes despise me!
International Standard Version
you'll still drop me into the Pit, and my own clothes will despise me.
A Conservative Version
yet thou will plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
American Standard Version
Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Amplified
You would still plunge me into the pit,
And my own clothes would hate me [and refuse to cover my foul body].
Bible in Basic English
Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.
Darby Translation
Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me.
Julia Smith Translation
Then thou wilt immerse me in the ditch, and my garments abhorred me.
King James 2000
Yet shall you plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
Modern King James verseion
yet You will plunge me into the ditch and my own clothes shall despise me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
yet shouldest thou dip me in the mire, and mine own clothes should defile me.
NET Bible
then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.
New Heart English Bible
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
The Emphasized Bible
Then, in a ditch, wouldst thou plunge me, and mine own clothes should abhor me:
Webster
Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
World English Bible
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
Youngs Literal Translation
Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.
Themes
Pardon » Outward purifications, ineffectual for
Purifications or baptisms » Insufficient for spiritual purification
Self-righteousness » Is vain because our righteousness is » Ineffectual for salvation
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:31
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
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. 32 "For [he is] not a mortal like me [that] I can answer him, [that] {we can come to trial together}.
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Cross References
Job 9:20
Even though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me; [even though] I [am] blameless, yet it would pronounce me guilty.
Job 15:6
Your mouth condemns you, and not I; and your lips testify against you.
Isaiah 59:6
Their webs cannot become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their works [are] works of iniquity, and deeds of violence [are] in their hands.
Isaiah 64:6
And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a menstrual cloth, And we all wither like leaf, and our iniquities take us away like the wind.
Philippians 3:8-9
{More than that}, even consider all [things] to be loss because of the surpassing greatness of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I have suffered the loss of all [things], and consider [them] dung, in order that I may gain Christ