Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

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

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;

Lexham Expanded Bible

If I wash myself with soap, and I cleanse my hands with lye,

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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If I wash
רחץ 
Rachats 
Usage: 72

myself with
שׁלג 
Sheleg 
Usage: 20

and make my hands
כּף 
Kaph 
Usage: 192

בּר 
Bor 
Usage: 6

References

Context Readings

Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad

29 I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain? 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean, 31 yet thou will plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.



Cross References

Jeremiah 2:22

For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, says lord LORD.

Job 31:7

if my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,

Psalm 26:6

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will encompass thine altar, O LORD,

Proverbs 28:13

He who covers his transgressions shall not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them shall obtain mercy.

Isaiah 1:16-18

Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

Romans 10:3

For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.

1 John 1:8

If we say that we have no sin, we lead ourselves astray, and the truth is not in us.

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