Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;
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,
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,
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
Mayim
Kaph
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:30
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
29 You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing? 30 If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap; 31 Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:22
For even if you are washed with soda and take much soap, still your evil-doing is marked before me, says the Lord God.
Job 31:7
If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;
Psalm 26:6
I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;
Proverbs 28:13
He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.
Isaiah 1:16-18
Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?
Romans 10:3
Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.